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