Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:34:04 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing |
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On 10/2/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It doesn't sound like it'll be too hard to arrange for the kernel to > > continue to work correctly with old userspace? > > Actually, it's impossible. New userspace can work across both > version, old userspace fails on new version. > > The whole point of the -rc process is to find problems and the > scope of it, there is no way I can know everything. At this point, we > can decide if WE-21 should go in 2.6.19 or wait for 2.6.20. But I know > that most Linux-Wireless people such as Dan and Jouni have been > waiting impatiently for those changes... >
It would be nice if need of a specific version of wireless tools was documented in Documentaion/Changes. It was a surprise for me when my wireless card stopped working.
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