From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:40:54 +0100 > > > 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. That's fine, I understand how difficult it is to translate things embedded in netlink messages but: 1) even the netlink case can be fixed, we need some infrastructure to set some state at the top of the syscall path, and then when we call into the netlink protocol handler it will know what format the netlink payload needs to be in and 2) the ioctls are broken too and that definitely can be fixed We cannot have tools and interfaces that only work on native binaries. - 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
