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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 32bit compat for rtnetlink wireless extensions?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:10:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603272310.44692.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060327184242.GC31478@bougret.hpl.hp.com>

Am Monday 27 March 2006 20:42 schrieb Jean Tourrilhes:
>         Actually, when things are passed over RtNetlink, the pointer
> is removed, and the content of IW_HEADER_TYPE_POINT is moved to not
> leave a gap.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

So if the wireless ioctl interface ever got retired, that code could
get simplified a lot to just pass around a flat data structure, right?

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-27 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200603261408.48766.arnd@arndb.de>
2006-03-27 18:42 ` 32bit compat for rtnetlink wireless extensions? Jean Tourrilhes
2006-03-27 21:10   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-03-27 21:17     ` Jean Tourrilhes

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