"David S. Miller" wrote: > > 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] Hmm, that is a whole lot more complicated than I thought. Do we know exactly what userland apps/libs use ifmap? Maybe the damage is not so bad, so that we can fix this problem without making it look worse. Jun - 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/
