Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:30:18 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing |
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:12:59AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 09:38 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > John, has the wireless community considered creating a new interface > > which *is* carefully designed, and supporting both the new and the > > legacy interface for 2-3 years until all of the mainstream > > Yes, nl80211/cfg80211 (sent to netdev@ last week) is the likely > successor. Please, if you have suggestions for ABI/API-proofability, > review the patch and post suggestions! We all know a carefully designed > is not just about the code, but about the semantics, structures, etc as > well. It would be quite valuable to have everyone's input to make sure > it's as future-proof as possible.
Dan is quick on his keyboard today! :-)
As Dan points-out, there is serious work underway on the next generation wireless management A[BP]I. That work is (perhaps unfortunately) closely linked to the new wireless stack work currently underway.
John
P.S. Ted, thanks for your calm and respectful communications! -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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