Return-path: Received: from dhost002-53.dex002.intermedia.net ([64.78.21.155]:42913 "EHLO dhost002-53.dex002.intermedia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767634AbXCIXT0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:19:26 -0500 From: "Jouni Malinen" Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:19:22 -0800 To: Jean Tourrilhes Cc: Johannes Berg , Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev , Jeff Garzik , Dan Williams Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures Message-ID: <20070309231922.GF24143@devicescape.com> References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070309213531.GA28070@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:35:31PM -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. > Which is why I would like to hear from Jouni. How confident are you of this being the full set? I did not use iwlib for two reasons: its license and it not being available (at least at that point in time) by default in many Linux distros. I would expect someone else having the same reasons, but I have to admit that I have not looked into this at all, so this is only a guess. > 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). Hmm.. What should I look as the description of the latest proposed workaround? I was kind of hoping to see a nice description of the problem and proposed change in couple of paragraphs of text.. ;-) Anyway, I can see two changes when I diff wireless tools 29.pre14 and pre15 that are clearly related to this. Diff of pre14 vs. pre16 or pre15 vs. pre16 includes more changes and some of them do not seem to be related to issue. Unfortunately I do not have access to any system to test this workaround, so I cannot easily test this myself. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA