Re: two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 05:58:18 EST


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

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