Re: [RFA] HE support
Richard Sharpe <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Apr 2018 06:56:02 -0700
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:55 AM, Johannes Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. I can go with either approach ... coding the changes will not take long :-) Sigh. The perils of trying to stay at the front if the charge. -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)(传说杜康是酒的发明者)