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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:58:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030207105818.GB750@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030203201255.GA32689@wotan.suse.de>

Hi!

> > 	The source of Wireless Tools should be 64 bit clean (was
> > working on Alpha), and I don't think it's worth adding a whole pile of
> > cruft in the kernel when it's used by a few system utilities that you
> > can simply recompile. Personally, I expect every distribution to ship
> > the base system compiled natively.
> > 	With regards to this specific problem, just return an
> > error. The Wireless Tools should gracefully handle it and report to
> 
> That is currently done (-EINVAL), but the emulation layer logs an 
> warning.

Perhaps we need new error code -EEMULATION with message "not supported
within this emulation"?
								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-07 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-24 19:16 two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3 Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-24 19:37 ` Andi Kleen
2003-01-28 20:51   ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-28 21:27     ` Andi Kleen
2003-01-29 15:39       ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-29 16:28         ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-03 19:17           ` Mikael Pettersson
2003-02-03 19:49             ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-02-03 20:12               ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-03 21:43                 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-02-03 22:46                   ` 32bit emulation of wireless ioctls Andi Kleen
2003-02-03 23:17                     ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-02-03 23:51                       ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-04  0:09                         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-02-03 23:58                       ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-04  0:04                       ` David Mosberger
2003-02-04  0:11                       ` Anton Blanchard
2003-02-07 10:58                 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-02-07 14:32                   ` two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3 Alan Cox
2003-02-07 22:58                     ` Erik Mouw
2003-02-04  3:13 ` Ton Hospel
2003-02-04 13:11   ` Mikael Pettersson

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