Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 20:36:46 -0400 | From | Sean <> | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing |
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:30:31 -0700 Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> How does that happen in practice ? Kernel has no clue on what > userpace version is running. >
Ted mentioned that the way it works for stat is that userspace requests an API version and the kernel delivers it. So old versions request old API and new versions request new API. You only ever _add_ new API, and never remove older versions.
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