From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Laszlo Valko Subject: Re: [OT Re: Question: Variable sized matchinfo Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:46:01 +0100 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20030121174601.A27338@linux.karinthy.hu> References: <20030120232634.24011.21218.Mailman@kashyyyk> <15916.60267.562015.732567@isis.cs3-inc.com> <3E2D3218.1040805@trash.net> <20030121170702.B24205@linux.karinthy.hu> <3E2D762E.1040001@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Don Cohen , netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org Return-path: To: Patrick McHardy Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E2D762E.1040001@trash.net>; from kaber@trash.net on Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 05:32:46PM +0100 Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org 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