From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>,
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
hostap@shmoo.com, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:38:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061003123835.GA23912@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159807483.4067.150.camel@mindpipe>
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:44:42PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 09:21 +0000, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > we've been just through an email thread where it has been
> > determined that wpa_supplicant 0.4.9 (I would assume that
> > 0.5.5 is also okay) and wireless-tools from Jean's latest
> > tarball are necessary to work with the recent wireless
> > extensions v21 that have been merged in.
> >
> > What wireless-tools are you using ?
>
> This must be considered a kernel bug - it's not allowed to break
> userspace compatibility in a stable series.
But there is no development series. The closest thing we have is the
merge window after each release -- which is exactly when this issue
revealed itself.
Wireless in general (and the wireless extensions api in particular)
is a bit of a 'whipping boy' in the Linux world. OK, we suck.
Everyone wants to display their wisdom by telling us how much we suck!
We know all about it...
We have sucked, and we continue to suck -- and we are working on it.
But, we are not going to be able to whip-up this omelette without
breaking a few eggs. If we can't do that during the merge windows,
WHEN CAN WE DO IT?
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-03 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-02 8:59 wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Norbert Preining
2006-10-02 9:21 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-02 11:32 ` Norbert Preining
2006-10-02 12:21 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-02 12:46 ` Norbert Preining
2006-10-02 16:50 ` Norbert Preining
2006-10-02 16:58 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-02 18:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 18:55 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 19:22 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-02 19:59 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 19:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-02 19:39 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 19:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-02 19:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-02 21:00 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-02 21:26 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-02 21:58 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 10:39 ` Keith Owens
2006-10-02 22:08 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-03 12:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-03 12:49 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 13:38 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 14:12 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-03 14:30 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 16:00 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 17:03 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 16:52 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 17:23 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 17:38 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 17:40 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-03 22:30 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 22:51 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 12:53 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-03 16:41 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-10 6:29 ` Reinhard Tartler
2006-10-02 19:41 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 20:57 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-02 21:04 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-02 16:44 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-03 12:38 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2006-10-03 12:59 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 15:54 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-03 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 18:05 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 18:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-03 18:38 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 18:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-03 19:48 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 19:52 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 21:40 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 21:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-03 22:27 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 22:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04 2:10 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-10-03 21:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-03 22:16 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-03 22:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04 18:10 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 18:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04 18:42 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 18:59 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 19:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 19:52 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 20:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 20:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-04 20:47 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 22:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 0:26 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 15:20 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-05 16:28 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-06 21:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-04 21:08 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-04 23:29 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-05 0:30 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 1:55 ` LEAP (was: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing) Jouni Malinen
2006-10-03 23:14 ` [ipw3945-devel] wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing mabbas
2006-10-03 23:16 ` Theodore Tso
2006-10-03 23:31 ` Jean Tourrilhes
[not found] ` <20061003202754.ce69f03a.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-10-04 0:27 ` Sean
2006-10-04 0:30 ` Jean Tourrilhes
[not found] ` <20061003203646.60d9589a.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-10-04 0:36 ` Sean
2006-10-04 12:36 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-04 7:49 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-05 16:35 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 16:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:42 ` Erik Andersen
2006-10-05 17:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 18:36 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-04 7:50 ` Johannes Berg
2006-10-03 19:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-03 19:49 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-04 2:21 ` Jouni Malinen
2006-10-04 7:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-04 12:39 ` John W. Linville
2006-10-03 18:31 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-10-03 18:40 ` Jean Tourrilhes
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