Re: [RFA] HE support

On Thu, 2018-04-12 at 02:54 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > What do you think? Could wireshark do a point release of 2.6.x and 2.5.x
> > to include the changes? Or perhaps we could just say that 2.5.x would
> > just be broken for this, and people should upgrade for HE?
> 
> 
> n.{odd number}.x Wireshark releases are development releases; Gerald,
> is there any reason to care whether 2.5.x is broken when it tries to
> read this radiotap field?

Ah, I wasn't aware of this, thanks.

> 2.6.0 is scheduled for April 18th; Gerald, if we have a finalized
> version of this radiotap field soon, would it be possible to get a
> change for that into the 2.6.0 release?

That's pretty soon, but another option would be to just #if 0 the broken
code quickly? That's a bit annoying, but better than shipping something
that we may have to break.

johannes