Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:33:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:33:29 -0500 Received: from phobos.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.124]:56000 "EHLO phobos.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:33:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:17:40 -0800 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org Subject: Re: 32bit emulation of wireless ioctls Message-ID: <20030203231740.GA29267@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <20030124193721.GA24876@wotan.suse.de> <15926.60767.451098.218188@harpo.it.uu.se> <20030128212753.GA29191@wotan.suse.de> <15927.62893.336010.363817@harpo.it.uu.se> <20030129162824.GA4773@wotan.suse.de> <15934.49235.619101.789799@harpo.it.uu.se> <20030203194923.GA27997@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030203201255.GA32689@wotan.suse.de> <20030203214325.GA28330@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030203224619.GA6405@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203224619.GA6405@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com From: Jean Tourrilhes X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1801 Lines: 49 On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:46:19PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Anyway, I believe that 64 bit platforms will need to become > > mainstream before the issue of wireless on 64 bit is pressing, and by > > that time most distro will have made the jump. > > Hmm, not so sure. I guess people will sooner than later plug wireless > cards into 64bit boxes, especially with x86-64 which will hopefully > be quite "mainstream". But I content that when it is that much mainstream, you will have 64 bit distros. > > > That is currently done (-EINVAL), but the emulation layer logs an > > > warning. > > > > It's just a shame that it's not more distinctive, because the > > error message wouldn't lead me to think "doh, I need a recompile". > > Do you have a better suggestion? I checked the errno list, and there was not one obvious candidate. Potentially we could abuse ENOEXEC, but I must admit my knowledge of errnos is too superficial. > Anyways: for me it is just slightly annoying to not have 32bit > emulation for something, but for other ports like sparc64/ppc64/mips64 > it can be show stopper because they only have 32bit userland. > Expect trouble when DaveM wants to plug a wireless card into one of > his sparc64 boxes ;-) I want to see that ;-) I've always been telling David and Stephane here that they should loan me an Itanium box to make sure IrDA and Wireless LAN work properly, for the day we will release a PDA with an Itanium processor. > -Andi Have fun... Jean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/