Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:60044 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933133AbXCHT1f (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:27:35 -0500 Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures From: Johannes Berg To: jt@hpl.hp.com Cc: Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev , Jeff Garzik , Dan Williams , Jouni Malinen In-Reply-To: <20070308184954.GA24485@bougret.hpl.hp.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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-VjUWlSUMKghz3KaPjnFd" Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:27:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1173382042.3248.63.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-VjUWlSUMKghz3KaPjnFd Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. johannes --=-VjUWlSUMKghz3KaPjnFd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBF8GOa/ETPhpq3jKURAufVAJ9rn5Xs0kODVf31jtCJAU0e6N0b4ACfYDpv ytNYd3/mBS0bVO61rLcZs4Y= =PAHo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-VjUWlSUMKghz3KaPjnFd--