Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:31:08 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing |
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, John W. Linville wrote: > > Today's news seems to indicate that at least the major distros are > already shipping the updated tools, or on the verge of shipping them. > The window of breakage for most users looks like it will be fairly > small, no matter what action taken. > > The more we can clean-up the WE API, the easier it will be to implement > the cfg80211 WE compatibility layer intended for wireless-dev. > I think WE-21 makes things better in that respect.
Please correct me if I'm wrong: isn't it the case that a few of the distros are now coming out with wireless_tools.28 supporting WE-20, but current 2.6.18-git wireless drivers are WE-21, supported only by wireless_tools.29.pre10?
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