On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 02:03:23PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. You need : Wireless Tools 29-pre20 or later network manager 0.6.5 or later Distro that have those versions : Gentoo 2007.0 Debian unstable Ubuntu Gutsy OpenSuSE 10.3a5 We are getting there... The situation with wpa_supplicant is most unfortunate, fortunately x-supplicant should work properly, as it uses libiw. > johannes Thanks... Jean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
