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Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures

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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.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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