From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757691AbYJVSAl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:00:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754213AbYJVSAX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:00:23 -0400 Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.124]:50432 "EHLO madara.hpl.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751631AbYJVSAV (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:00:21 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1091 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:00:21 EDT Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:37:21 -0700 To: Johannes Berg Cc: Larry Finger , Jouni Malinen , Jouni Malinen , wireless , LKML , John Linville Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.27-git from commit 43ac2ca3840f64 Message-ID: <20081022173721.GA5786@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <48FDFCCA.8040604@lwfinger.net> <20081022072840.GD16005@jm.kir.nu> <48FF5933.3080501@lwfinger.net> <1224695189.30459.6.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224695189.30459.6.camel@johannes.berg> Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Jean Tourrilhes X-HPL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-HPL-MailScanner-From: jt@hpl.hp.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:06:29PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 09:47 -0700, Larry Finger wrote: > > > When a utility starts spitting messages that it doesn't understand what the > > kernel is providing _AND_ the commit message does not mention that this will > > happen, can someone be blamed for thinking it is a bug? > > Heh, no, not really. It was fairly obvious us, but I guess we were just > routine-blinded. > > > Clearly this is not a regression. Are there plans to update the wireless utilities? > > I suspect it could just be made to ignore them. Or skip a select few, > but obviously it will never be able to parse all of them... > > johannes Hi, If you want me to understand what it's about, you may want to give me a bit more context. Alternatively, just send me a patch for Wireless Tools, and I'll put it in the next release. Wireless Tools is still maintained and I still do releases, even if I don't put much cycles into it. Have a great day... Jean