From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:33661 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751338AbZFXIsf (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:48:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC/HACK] net/compat/wext: allow sending different messages to compat tasks From: Johannes Berg To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann In-Reply-To: <1245589835.5003.2.camel@johannes.local> References: <1245589835.5003.2.camel@johannes.local> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-vT0sr91OMfl2dOhgrsVY" Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:48:35 +0200 Message-Id: <1245833315.21314.47.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-vT0sr91OMfl2dOhgrsVY Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 15:10 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events > are multicast, and are not independent of pointer size. Thus, > currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms cannot properly > receive events and fail with all kinds of strange problems, > for instance wpa_supplicant never notices disassociations, due > to the way the 64-bit event looks to a 32-bit process the fact > that the address is all zeroes is lost, it thinks instead it > is 00:01:00:00:00:00 (actually I'm not entirely sure about the > position of the 1 but it's like that). No further comments on this? If I fix sparc and mips, can I get it merged? johannes --=-vT0sr91OMfl2dOhgrsVY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKQehfAAoJEODzc/N7+QmapqkP/i2cik9RB8+iyzK7uThbMsgo v6RYaOFo6t6TRRTccxdJbFs9c9RtTVoF/t8aiDGo1rrEtZE9FV+P5WAH55D8TkZB t+v0LMJm1HVgf2jQyS1IpEa21+djSM0FEr7UsgHWGsVxDGo5juagIRuSn8YCl3Or oJPwcNVvjP0NhfqYfEcZg3k2d2vDBdTtA/S04u64dNBJH3jgQnwPtS1eaP6RoXA7 f8ZvNV2Yb0K1ieZdIaorU2fzYID7OwhhrZs2t4EMnn4XAaHZvwowmZWGbBigjtwy iHx8TMS43MqD45HMau3mNu4vj5JUtcUVD9gF6PwKmhHNpuu1g1NMC28QoMvqL21S nHQVGwRyjyuvlBZpCSsVLrBnalVUKtrrB4k23TjmMGoYyMfHit1Q/Ysz6RPjGoY1 EgScHhIPIqgD7J9RnsG3Zr16PclExLJT3oBrdAq++thiIl/NNAXS9Omma+jmCtE7 EDqAcrs48+EmoQZayUTLyICyk/lmVO7upf1mznDapraHhUYriElYeBxhFD/mOCnP KOVml38jYgJZDeXH2UC+2cX5IAtiGa8GNQefmOpiBTnL1803FouCoLktlp+Hgn3K eWC6FAKi8pDwjE3q3OcL5mXuzNN3wp1qrbxfA2q1VMD002j+gJtfreaP6RY5hfDC ZEIr+Gt3WErtOdAAyxI0 =Ea06 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-vT0sr91OMfl2dOhgrsVY--