From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:36:06 -0800
> David Miller wrote: > > Now we'll have to have a compat layer for 32-bit/64-bit environments > > thanks to POSIX timers, which is rediculious. > > We already have compat_sys_timer_create. It should be sufficient just > to add the conversion (if anything new is needed) there. The pointer > value can be passed to userland in one or two int fields, I don't really > care. When reporting the event to the user code we cannot just point > into the ring buffer anyway. So while copying the data we can rewrite > it if necessary. I see no need to complicate the code more than it > already is. Ok, as long as that thing doesn't end up in the ring buffer entry data structure, that's where the real troubles would be. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
