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HumorHumorPosted Oct 5, 2006 21:47 UTC (Thu) by simonl (subscriber, #13603)Parent article: The final wireless extension?
> The wireless extensions, it seems, may be extended no more.
Jon, you are a brilliant writer.
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Humor Posted Oct 6, 2006 1:05 UTC (Fri) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link] Seconded. I'm just a dumb user yet I understand, in general, most everything Jon writes. How does he do that?
"The wireless extensions, it seems, may be extended no more" Posted Oct 13, 2006 2:26 UTC (Fri) by slamb (guest, #1070) [Link] It's good writing, but I don't think it's actually true. Couldn't the existing version number be frozenat 20 and a "real" version number added as another ioctl()? The behavior on unknown ioctl()s is well-defined, so there'd be a reliable way to know if the API was extended in a different way than originally planned for version 21.
This would make the check-for-21-or-higher tools think it's 20, yet newly written tools know
it's an ugly solution and perhaps not worthwhile, but it's possible.
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