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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: 32bit compat for rtnetlink wireless extensions?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:10:44 +0200
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Am Monday 27 March 2006 20:42 schrieb Jean Tourrilhes:
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Actually, when things are passed over RtNetli=
nk, 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 <><