In our last IRC meeting, wireless-tools incompatability between etch
and 2.6.23 was raised as a concern. I did some simple testing and
didn't find any issues, so I contacted the upstream author. He
believes there are no compatability issues (see below).
Would we consider updating wireless-tools in stable to disable the
printing of this warning for this case?
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:06:29PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:58:19PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > hello Jean and Guus,
> > I am part of a group of Debian developers looking to see if we can
> > add an updated kernel to the existing release of Debian (4.0,
> > 'etch'). We are investigating what, if any, userspace changes would
> > need to coincide with such a change.
> >
> > It was noted in a meeting that wireless tools may have issues, since
> > we will now need to support kernels that use both API 28 and API 29
> > (2.6.18 and 2.6.23, respectively), while our wireless-tools is for API
> > 28. And indeed, wireless-tools commands do print a warning that there
> > maybe problems.
> >
> > My question is, do you know of any "forwards-compatability" issues
> > for API 28 tools w/ API 29 drivers?
>
> Just a correction; the WE versions in question are 20 and 22, not 28
> and 29. (The latter being the wireless-tools versions).
Hi,
Sorry for the delay, I was on vacation.
To answer your questions, for this particular transition, I
don't foresee any problem with forward compatibility. WT-28 shoudl
work fine with WE-21 and WE-22. You will just have to deal with the
annoying messate, that's all.
Note also that backward compatibility is guaranteed. I take
care of that. The latest version of Wireless Tools should work without
problem on kernel 2.2.X.
In any case, upgrading Wireless Tools to v29 is painless,
expect for the need to recompile all the tools depending on iwlist. I
suggested for a long time the ability to support in Debian two
concurent versions of iwlib (which should be trivial), but that does
not seem to be a priority.
> dann frazier | HP Open Source and Linux Organization
Have fun...
Jean
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