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Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:17:56PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:11:28 -0800 Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > 
> > 	Third possibility : we declare 32 bit userspace on 64 bit
> > kernel as not supported and advise users to get a 64 bit
> > userspace. The number of bug report on that issue would suggest that
> > very few users are in this case.
> 
> I think that this is not actually an option since
> powerpc64 is all 32-bit userspace.
> Maybe some other arch-es are like this also (?).

	Then, I assume that the powerpc64 must be using a magic
version of iwconfig to configure wireless interfaces, because I only
ever got one other bug report on the issue. They should have sent the
patch to Johannes, because now I know about their unauthorised version
of iwconfig.
	Thanks,

	Jean

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