Hi, > While developing the wireless support for PS3, I'd noticed there were alignment > issues if we issued some wireless ioctl from 32bit userland to 64bit > kernel (ppc64 PS3 does have). > > - IW_EV_LCP_LEN in 32bit userland and 64bit kernel differ > - offsetof(struct iw_point, length) differ Yeah, we're aware of them. > The former issue could be fixed if we added 'packed' attribute to > iw_event structure, but it would break existing 64bit userland. I have > no idea to resolve latter issue because the first member of struct > iw_point is a pointer. > > Does anyone have idea to fix these issues? > (except compiling all userland apps in 64bit mode...) Jean wants to fix them in userspace. In fact, if you upgrade your userspace to the really latest version it *should* work. wpa_supplicant still doesn't work, nor do most distribution's versions of network manager because the fixes haven't been backported. johannes
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