Re: wext 64-bit: network manager and wpa_supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:48 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Ahrg. So I was complaining about NM not displaying any networks when
> that umlaut-network I talked about earlier was present. But all that was
> just wrong, the real problem seems to be that NM doesn't work on 64-bit
> platforms. Is there any fix for it? It really should be going into a
> 0.6.5.1 version or something so distributions will ship it.

You mean it doesn't work correctly when handling ioctls on 64-bit
platforms?  Or is just plain broken in non-ioctl ways?

Dan

> Same seems to go for wpa_supplicant, Debian is shipping 0.6.0 which only
> triggers this in the kernel log:
> 
> [  787.877417] ioctl32(wpa_supplicant:5846): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00008b32){t:8b;sz:0} arg(ffb58418) on socket:[14569]
> [  787.877763] ioctl32(wpa_supplicant:5846): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00008b32){t:8b;sz:0} arg(ffb58418) on socket:[14569]
> [  787.877817] ioctl32(wpa_supplicant:5846): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00008b32){t:8b;sz:0} arg(ffb58418) on socket:[14569]
> [  795.264145] ioctl32(wpa_supplicant:5846): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00008b32){t:8b;sz:0} arg(ffb58458) on socket:[14569]
> [  795.264243] ioctl32(wpa_supplicant:5846): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00008b32){t:8b;sz:0} arg(ffb58458) on socket:[14569]
> [  795.264291] ioctl32(wpa_supplicant:5846): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00008b32){t:8b;sz:0} arg(ffb58458) on socket:[14569]
> 
> And even the wpa_supplicant git version still seems to parse everything
> itself without any 64-bit workarounds as far as I can tell. I keep
> building wpa_supplicant for 64-bit just to test... Any chance to finally
> get fixes into the stable versions distros are shipping?
> 
> Thanks,
> johannes