Re: wireless abi breakage (was Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA)

[Pekka Enberg]

On 9/30/06, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Well... we are trying to have stable abi here. Breaking older wireless
> tools randomly is *not* okay in the middle of stable series.

Seconded. This is totally unacceptable so please fix up the ABI. You
must follow the proper procedure and add incompatible changes to
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt so people will have enough
to migrate.
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