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

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Message-ID: <20070309213531.GA28070@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:35:31 -0800
From:	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Jouni Malinen <jkm@...icescape.com>, 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>
Subject: Re: wireless extensions vs. 64-bit architectures

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:35:26PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:11 -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 
> > 	First possiblity, we could stick with this band-aid
> > permanently.
> 
> It sucks for various reasons, one for example being that I don't even
> understand your recognition code but all userspace programs that use
> wext will have to include such code!

	It's not as bad as it look like. All userspace programs
nowadays use either the iwlib or wpa_supplicant. For example,
NetworkManager gets its stuff through wpa_supplicant, and kdenetwork
uses iwlib. So, in essence, there is only two places to fix.
	Which is why I would like to hear from Jouni.

	By the way, I've just released version 29.pre16 which has a
better band aid. It fixes bugs of the previous version and is more
forward compatible (i.e. it's compatible with option 2).

	Have fun...

	Jean
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