Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <jkm@devicescape.com>
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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

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