From: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Packet socket: fix for 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:36:06 -0800 (PST)

> > tpacket_hdr structure includes 'unsigned long' though kernel and
> > userland shares it in the mmapped ring buffer.
> > 
> > Seems it would be better to fix all data structures in the header file
> > than fixing only tpacket_hdr structure.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> You broke 64-bit userland by changing that "unsigned long"
> to a __u32.

You mean that currently it's broken in 64-bit kernel and 32-bit
userland anyway so use __u64 instead of __u32?
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