On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 19:20 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote: > Unfortunately, I do not have a device that would show the 64-bit issue. > Could you please remind me which devices are affected and how common > they are? So far, not very many people have complained about the issues > with wpa_supplicant on 64-bit systems. Every time you run a 32-bit wpa_supplicant on a 64-bit system. > > Could you try wpa_supplicant with kernel patch below on your 32-bit > > machine? I think this should make the problem show up on 32-bit > > machines. Not having a 64-bit machine needn't stop you from fixing the > > alignment problems :) I can then verify that it works and didn't break > > 64/64 setups if you want. > > This sounds like an interesting way of resolving the lack of hardware > part of the problem.. ;-) If this approach is confirmed to work, I > would be quite a bit more likely to actually find time to take a closer > look at the problem. I think this should reproduce the problem since the actual problem is that on a 64-bit kernel you have more padding that 32-bit userspace needs to work around. johannes
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