Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:13 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> 	I'm looking into that. The good thing is that we have
> redundant information, so we can check that things don't match. It's a
> bit more complex because some of those take variable parameters.

Yeah, and it also only happens with those event streams I think. But I
haven't checked other possible places.

> > I'd think this is a kernel bug and 32-bit userspace should rightfully be
> > able to expect 32-bit aligned structs, no? Actually fixing it in the
> > kernel would not be trivial though.
> 
> 	What we could do is have every 64 bit kernel return things on
> a 32 bit boundary, irrespective of userspace used. That would break
> current 64 bit userspace.

Yeah, the only way to fix the bug without breaking that would be to
return different structs for the different userspaces which sounds
really complex.

johannes

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