From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Berg Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:40:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1173382802.3248.68.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1173144447.15891.93.camel@johannes.berg> <20070306171316.GA19669@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <200703061943.07350.mb@bu3sch.de> <20070307020310.GA20466@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <1173364747.14001.7.camel@johannes.berg> <20070308184954.GA24485@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <1173382042.3248.63.camel@johannes.berg> <20070308193412.GG23040@devicescape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-AQ2J+NA0w52xtbr+ov3N" Cc: jt-sDzT885Ts8HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Michael Buesch , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev , Jeff Garzik , Dan Williams To: Jouni Malinen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070308193412.GG23040-r/za7OOdgF0ztatW0fm/fQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-AQ2J+NA0w52xtbr+ov3N Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:34 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: > Yes, workaround in just iwlib is not enough. If the only possible > solution is user space workaround, it better be documented (and > communicated to maintainers of user space apps) well so that > all user space programs not using iwlib can be modified, too. The more I think about it the worse it gets. Think about wireless events where both 32 and 64-bit userspace programs may be listening... That means we can't even fix it in the kernel without breaking something. johannes --=-AQ2J+NA0w52xtbr+ov3N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF8GaR/ETPhpq3jKURAkspAJ0eKz/C5kNMF2fmYcHhBdxs2S+yVwCggqKo a3rmXJie8QsxDNHH6YhGWMo= =Hxg6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-AQ2J+NA0w52xtbr+ov3N--