Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:30:31 -0700
Jean Tourrilhes <[email protected]> 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.

Sean
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References:
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: Lee Revell <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: "John W. Linville" <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: Jean Tourrilhes <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: "John W. Linville" <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: Theodore Tso <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: Jean Tourrilhes <[email protected]>
- Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
  - From: Jean Tourrilhes <[email protected]>

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