From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Conversion of driver for Realtek 8192SU
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 20:06:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274983581.3669.60.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFE9A22.5040005@lwfinger.net>
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 11:13 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> I know that the size of pointers changes from 32- to 54-bit
> architecture, as does the size of longs. I have been through the code
> many times, and I think those have been fixed. Are there any other types
> of objects that change size? Does anyone have any suggestions on what to
> look for?
Alignment _might_ be different, though I think it isn't actually as long
as we're talking about x86_64 (amd64) only.
If the driver uses wireless extensions (likely), it might have issues
with that too, since they are not very 32/64-bit compat happy (unless
you're using 64-bit userspace exclusively obviously)
I can't think of anything else right now.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-27 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-27 16:13 Conversion of driver for Realtek 8192SU Larry Finger
2010-05-27 18:06 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-05-27 18:26 ` Larry Finger
2010-06-05 18:50 ` Frederic Leroy
2010-09-10 8:55 ` Claus Ried
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1274983581.3669.60.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net \
--to=johannes@sipsolutions.net \
--cc=Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linville@tuxdriver.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).