Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:39100 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933864AbXCKRju (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:39:50 -0400 Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures From: Johannes Berg To: jt@hpl.hp.com Cc: Jouni Malinen , Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev , Jeff Garzik , Dan Williams In-Reply-To: <20070309213531.GA28070@bougret.hpl.hp.com> References: <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> <1173382802.3248.68.camel@johannes.berg> <20070308221128.GA24884@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <1173393326.3831.21.camel@johannes.berg> <20070309213531.GA28070@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BAevytRqroPi/uMU7YYS" Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:40:01 +0100 Message-Id: <1173634801.3382.8.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-BAevytRqroPi/uMU7YYS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:35 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > It's not as bad as it look like. All userspace programs > nowadays use either the iwlib or wpa_supplicant. For example, > NetworkManager gets its stuff through wpa_supplicant, and kdenetwork > uses iwlib. So, in essence, there is only two places to fix. That's definitely not true, the latest network manager I have sources to on my laptop right now (0.6.4) uses iwlib but only iw_get_ext and no parsing functions. I would guess that others "use" iwlib like that too. > By the way, I've just released version 29.pre16 which has a > better band aid. It fixes bugs of the previous version and is more > forward compatible (i.e. it's compatible with option 2). Can you please also *document* the bandaid and actually *describe* it in *words* instead of dense code without comments? I'm still not convinced that papering over the problem in userspace is a real solution. johannes --=-BAevytRqroPi/uMU7YYS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF9D7x/ETPhpq3jKURAublAJ9fHYUnh4T3Iq6P9Tf+xEv3V75HCQCfRn+f eVHgiC5NSxVS0oFGdRlt2sA= =9l22 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BAevytRqroPi/uMU7YYS--