Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On 10/5/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:26:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > The very fact that this turned into a discussion is a sign that the ABI
> > breakage wasn't handled well enough. Usually, when we do something, nobody
> > ever even notices.
>
>         There was the grand total of *ONE* user who was personally
> impacted by the userspace API change (the two other, one was hit by a
> bug, now fixed, one was hit because of kernel API change + external
> driver). And I immediately proposed to postpone the change to a later
> time.

And said user, being me, is currently running with upgraded userspace
 without any issues (counting upgrading userspace as a non-issue).

I originally logged my report as I do for other things that break or look
 different in new snapshots, in order to provide early feedback to the
 kernel developers - I guess it's the actual point of having snapshots
 from kernel.org...

Thanks, ciao,

--alessandro

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  all understandings must come by this way"

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