On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 15:10 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Wireless extensions have the unfortunate problem that events > are multicast, and are not independent of pointer size. Thus, > currently 32-bit tasks on 64-bit platforms cannot properly > receive events and fail with all kinds of strange problems, > for instance wpa_supplicant never notices disassociations, due > to the way the 64-bit event looks to a 32-bit process the fact > that the address is all zeroes is lost, it thinks instead it > is 00:01:00:00:00:00 (actually I'm not entirely sure about the > position of the 1 but it's like that). No further comments on this? If I fix sparc and mips, can I get it merged? johannes
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