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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: two x86_64 fixes for 2.4.21-pre3
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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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