netdev - Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures

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Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:27:22 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	jt@....hp.com
Cc:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <jkm@...icescape.com>
Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:49 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 	A proper fix would involve forcing the alignement in the
> kernel. Unfortunately, that would break 64bit->64bit configs. I think
> I can build a workaround for this in iwlib.

Actually, other tools like network manager, wpa supplicant and possibly
more don't use iwlib afaik and are affected too, so the only real fix
seems to be possible in the kernel.

johannes

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