On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:24:47PM +0100, Dave wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
>> An attempt was made by Jouni Malinen to correct this issue by
>> converting to use IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE messages instead
>> ("mac80211: Use IWEVASSOCREQIE instead of IWEVCUSTOM"). Unfortunately,
>> that caused a problem due to 32-/64-bit interactions on some systems and
>> was reverted after the 'userland ABI' rule was invoked.
>
> I was unaware of this, and used IWEVASSOCREQIE and IWEVASSOCRESPIE in the
> orinoco wpa updates since the events were available in linux/wireless.h.
>
> Should I post a patch to use IWEVCUSTOM instead?
Honestly, I don't know. I think we would prefer not to use the
IWEVCUSTOM method, but my memory is not 100% clear on what triggered
the 32-/64-bit problem. Perhaps Jouni can comment?
John
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