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From: Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: avoid "Wireless Event too big" message for assoc response
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:24:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E53C1F.4040909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1222890302-32486-1-git-send-email-linville@linville-t61.local>

John W. Linville wrote:
> An attempt was made by Jouni Malinen to correct this issue by
> converting to use IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE messages instead
> ("mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM").  Unfortunately,
> that caused a problem due to 32-/64-bit interactions on some systems and
> was reverted after the 'userland ABI' rule was invoked.

I was unaware of this, and used IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE in the
orinoco wpa updates since the events were available in linux/wireless.h.

Should I post a patch to use IWEVCUSTOM instead?


Thanks,

Dave.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01 19:45 [PATCH] mac80211: avoid "Wireless Event too big" message for assoc response John W. Linville
2008-10-02 21:24 ` Dave [this message]
2008-10-06 17:53   ` John W. Linville
2008-10-06 18:22     ` Jouni Malinen

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