On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:58:42PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:00:16 -0800 > > > This is a special version of Wireless Tools with some debug > > code. It will help me understand what's happening with the bus error > > while scanning and see what fix I can come up with. > > What you need to do is : > > o untar, make > > o ./iwlist scan > scan.log > > And send me the result. > > I already know what's happening. Your "fixup" code is deferencing > the wrong part of the iw_point pointer, it only works on little > endian. > > The fix is to remove the userland fixup code entirely and fixup > the stream in the kernel. What a mess...are there going to be userland ABI implications of this? Hopefully the fact that 64-bit kernels were just broken is enough justifcation to fix this? John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
