netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/5] netlink: store MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag in netlink_skb

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Message-ID: <1266478634.3807.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:37:14 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] netlink: store MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag in
 netlink_skb_parms

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 17:46 +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> This allows the netlink processing context to determine if the data
> needs any 32 bit fixups.

> --- a/include/linux/netlink.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
> @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ struct netlink_skb_parms {
>  	__u32			loginuid;	/* Login (audit) uid */
>  	__u32			sessionid;	/* Session id (audit) */
>  	__u32			sid;		/* SELinux security id */
> +	__u8			msg_compat;	/* Message needs 32bit fixups */

bool?

johannes

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