Return-path: Received: from dhost002-63.dex002.intermedia.net ([64.78.20.12]:50620 "EHLO dhost002-63.dex002.intermedia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933189AbXCHTeS (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:34:18 -0500 From: "Jouni Malinen" Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:34:12 -0800 To: Johannes Berg Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev , Jeff Garzik , Dan Williams Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures Message-ID: <20070308193412.GG23040@devicescape.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1173382042.3248.63.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:27:22PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:49 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > A proper fix would involve forcing the alignement in the > > kernel. Unfortunately, that would break 64bit->64bit configs. I think > > I can build a workaround for this in iwlib. > > Actually, other tools like network manager, wpa supplicant and possibly > more don't use iwlib afaik and are affected too, so the only real fix > seems to be possible in the kernel. 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. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA