Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

[Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:49:39AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 19:16 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> 
> > OK, I'm going to ask a stupid question.  Why is the kernel<->wireless
> > driver interface have to be tied to the userspace<->wireless
> > interface?  
> 
> Haha. Because Jean thinks it isn't and thus everything is fine. But in
> reality it is.
> 
> > Is there some reason why this would be too hard to do with the current
> > interface?  
> 
> Yes: drivers are expected to mostly handle the ioctls directly without a
> layer between them and userspace.

	Once again, your facts are totally wrong about Wireless
Extensions.
	Have you ever looked at the code in the kernel ? I guarantee
you that adding whatever specific WE translation is quite easy. In
this precise case, this would only increase confusion, so this should
be considered bad API practice.
	Regards,

	Jean

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