Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 14:36:02 -0700 From: Jun Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here is a small patch which is needed on non-i386 platforms. The layout of this structure is exported to userspace applications, thus you cannot simply just change the type in this structure to get the change you need. This change thus cannot be made as-is. You must find some other way, let me give you one example of a potentially acceptable solution: 1) Add new member to union inside of ifreq where ifmap currently lives. Add new member, perhaps called ifmap2 which uses more appropriate types for base_addr member. 2) Add new ifreq call which looks at ifmap2 instead of ifmap. This way, existing userland applications still work as they did before hand, and new ones can be written to use the ifmap2 version of the interface. Also be sure that the glibc maintainers get this change once it is in the kernel. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
