From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: avoid "Wireless Event too big" message for assoc response
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:53:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081006175357.GB3448@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E53C1F.4040909@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:24:47PM +0100, Dave wrote:
> 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?
Honestly, I don't know. I think we would prefer not to use the
IWEVCUSTOM method, but my memory is not 100% clear on what triggered
the 32-/64-bit problem. Perhaps Jouni can comment?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 17:54 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
2008-10-06 17:53 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-10-06 18:22 ` Jouni Malinen
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