Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:58:18 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3 |
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Hi!
> > The source of Wireless Tools should be 64 bit clean (was > > working on Alpha), and I don't think it's worth adding a whole pile of > > cruft in the kernel when it's used by a few system utilities that you > > can simply recompile. Personally, I expect every distribution to ship > > the base system compiled natively. > > With regards to this specific problem, just return an > > error. The Wireless Tools should gracefully handle it and report to > > That is currently done (-EINVAL), but the emulation layer logs an > warning.
Perhaps we need new error code -EEMULATION with message "not supported within this emulation"? Pavel -- Worst form of spam? Adding advertisment signatures ala sourceforge.net. What goes next? Inserting advertisment *into* email? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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