Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:41:13 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking (WEXT events and 64/32 compat) |
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 01:11:33PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:11:28 -0700 > > > Would it be acceptable to ever enable use of IWEVASSOCREQIE / > > IWEVSSOCRESPIE in kernel if the workaround were available in new > > wpa_supplicant versions? Or should we try to add a new WEXT event > > type that uses fixed size for the length field and then replace the old > > IWEVCUSTOM with the new type since IWEVCUSTOM does not work with > > 64/32-bit case (wpa_supplicant just knows how to avoid processing that > > bogus event data)? > > Moving to a new event with a strictly sized datastructure, instead of > one that has variable sized members like pointers and crap which are > impossible to compat layer'ify, is indeed my preference. > > But in that case, we might as well make nl80211 usable instead.
This is, of course, my opinion as well.
John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com
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