Return-path: Received: from gundega.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:59169 "EHLO gundega.hpl.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767547AbXCIVhJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:37:09 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:35:31 -0800 To: Johannes Berg Cc: Jouni Malinen , Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev , Jeff Garzik , Dan Williams Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures Message-ID: <20070309213531.GA28070@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> <1173393326.3831.21.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1173393326.3831.21.camel@johannes.berg> From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:35:26PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:11 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > First possiblity, we could stick with this band-aid > > permanently. > > It sucks for various reasons, one for example being that I don't even > understand your recognition code but all userspace programs that use > wext will have to include such code! 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. Which is why I would like to hear from Jouni. 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). Have fun... Jean