On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:35 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > It's not as bad as it look like. All userspace programs > nowadays use either the iwlib or wpa_supplicant. For example, > NetworkManager gets its stuff through wpa_supplicant, and kdenetwork > uses iwlib. So, in essence, there is only two places to fix.
That's definitely not true, the latest network manager I have sources to on my laptop right now (0.6.4) uses iwlib but only iw_get_ext and no parsing functions. I would guess that others "use" iwlib like that too. > By the way, I've just released version 29.pre16 which has a > better band aid. It fixes bugs of the previous version and is more > forward compatible (i.e. it's compatible with option 2). Can you please also *document* the bandaid and actually *describe* it in *words* instead of dense code without comments? I'm still not convinced that papering over the problem in userspace is a real solution. johannes
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