Return-path: Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.124]:49765 "EHLO madara.hpl.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030744AbXCHWb2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:31:28 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:30:58 -0800 To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Johannes Berg , Jouni Malinen , Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev , Jeff Garzik , Dan Williams Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures Message-ID: <20070308223058.GA24960@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@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> <20070308141756.efdfd6da.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070308141756.efdfd6da.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:17:56PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:11:28 -0800 Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > > Third possibility : we declare 32 bit userspace on 64 bit > > kernel as not supported and advise users to get a 64 bit > > userspace. The number of bug report on that issue would suggest that > > very few users are in this case. > > I think that this is not actually an option since > powerpc64 is all 32-bit userspace. > Maybe some other arch-es are like this also (?). Then, I assume that the powerpc64 must be using a magic version of iwconfig to configure wireless interfaces, because I only ever got one other bug report on the issue. They should have sent the patch to Johannes, because now I know about their unauthorised version of iwconfig. Thanks, Jean