Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:34 -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote:

Yes, workaround in just iwlib is not enough. If the only possible
solution is user space workaround, it better be documented (and
communicated to maintainers of user space apps) well so that
all user space programs not using iwlib can be modified, too.

The more I think about it the worse it gets. Think about wireless events
where both 32 and 64-bit userspace programs may be listening... That
means we can't even fix it in the kernel without breaking something.

johannes