Re: Conversion of driver for Realtek 8192SU

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 05/27/2010 01:06 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. The problem I had with the scan channel was with WEXT. It seems
likely that this problem is somewhere in there.

Larry