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Re: zd1211rw (2.6.22 sparc64): unaligned access (do_rx)

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> It has to be, %99 of sparc64 userland is 32-bit.

Thought so. Same on powerpc.

> > The kernel has never been fixed and never will be. New wireless
> > tools should "support" this, but imnsho you're *much* better off
> > compiling 64-bit wireless tools.
> 
> This is an unreasonable requirement, all kernel ABIs should work in
> 32-bit compat tasks.  And when it's very difficult or impossible to
> make it work, there should be a new ABI to transition to that does
> work in compat mode and in particular would work now for the user.

Well, I complained too but it's unfixable without breaking one thing or
the other, consider netlink messages with iw_point in them that are
broadcast. Ugh.

johannes

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