Re: 32bit compat for rtnetlink wireless extensions?

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 16:09:05 EST


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 <><
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