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

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Message-Id: <1173191480.5415.2.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:31:20 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <jkm@...icescape.com>
Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 02:27 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Actually, I think it may have the same bug, it seems to be operating
> with iw_point (or at least its size) too

I'm told that the code that uses it is only internal and the size isn't
part of the userspace interface which makes this wrong. But we still
have many programs relying on ioctls and none relying on the wext/nl
interface so that isn't really a concern anyway.

johannes

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