From: Laszlo Valko <valko@linux.karinthy.hu>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Don Cohen <don-netf@isis.cs3-inc.com>,
netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [OT Re: Question: Variable sized matchinfo
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:46:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030121174601.A27338@linux.karinthy.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E2D762E.1040001@trash.net>; from kaber@trash.net on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 05:32:46PM +0100
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 05:32:46PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> you're right of course .. one question: i see copy_from_user in many
> places in the kernel, often within with user supplied
> addresses. Do all of these don't work on sparc64 ? what a horrible
> architecture ;)
>
> regards,
> patrick
>
Look at arch/sparc64/kernel/*.c and you'll see magic in there...
Just to have a small picture of the situation...
And imagine what will happen with x86-64! I doubt that there'll be
a compiler for that platform which produces working 64bit
userspace code real soon. It took about 5 years for sparc... :)))
Laszlo
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20030120232634.24011.21218.Mailman@kashyyyk>
2003-01-21 6:19 ` conntrack hash function comparison Don Cohen
2003-01-21 11:12 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2003-01-21 16:59 ` Don Cohen
2003-01-31 11:41 ` Harald Welte
2003-02-01 0:41 ` Don Cohen
2003-02-01 6:57 ` Patrick Schaaf
2003-02-01 7:58 ` Don Cohen
2003-02-01 8:37 ` Harald Welte
2003-02-01 19:05 ` Don Cohen
2003-02-02 22:45 ` Harald Welte
2003-01-21 6:40 ` Question: Variable sized matchinfo Don Cohen
2003-01-21 11:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2003-01-21 16:07 ` Laszlo Valko
2003-01-21 16:32 ` [OT " Patrick McHardy
2003-01-21 16:46 ` Laszlo Valko [this message]
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