On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:20:22PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
>
> Hmm, I'm still confused...
>
> Dan
Don't worry, you are not the only one being confused...
Anyway, I made some decisions, for a change ;-) Wireless
Extensions 21 will be the big switch over when ESSID length are the
real length of the string, and not +1.
A new version of Wireless Tools, v28-pre14, is released that
implement those changes and support the old and the new way. The goal
is that this version is standard in bleeding edge distro at the time
of switch-over. The final v28 should come fairly soon for this
reason...
Other user-space apps should start to get ready. I'll try to
notify the people affected.
Wireless Extensions 21 will happen when we feel things are
ready. Driver will need to be fixed at that point, and not
before. Most critical is to fix the 'set' path.
Breakdown of the changes :
Get ESSID requests :
Currently : mix of +0 and +1
WE-21 : +0
Old version of WT accept both.
Set ESSID requests :
Currently : +1
WE-21 : +0
WT-28-pre14 and later test WE version to send right form.
ESSID in iwevent :
Currently : +1
WE-21 : +0
Old version of WT will truncate if +0.
WT-28-pre14 and later accept both.
ESSID in Scanning results :
Currently : +1
WE-21 : +0
Old version of WT will truncate if +0.
WT-28-pre14 and later accept both.
Get Nickname requests :
Currently : +1
WE-21 : +0
Old version of WT accept both.
Set Nickname requests :
Currently : +1
WE-21 : +0
WT-28-pre14 and later test WE version to send right form.
Does that sounds like the right plan ?
Have fun...
Jean
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