On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:22:06AM +0200, Jari Sundell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 8/23/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >void * in structure exported to userspace is forbidden. > > Only void * I'm seeing belongs to the user, (udata) perhaps you are > talking of something different?
Yes, exactly about it. I put union { u32 a[2]; void *b; } epcially to eliminate that problem. And I'm not that sure aboit stuff like uptr_t or how they call pointers in userspace and kernelspace. > >long in syscall requires wrapper in per-arch code (although that > >workaround _is_ there, it does not mean that broken interface should > >be used). > >poll uses millisecods - it is perfectly ok. > > The kernel is there to hide those ugly implementation details from the > user, so I don't care that much about a workaround being required in > some cases. More important, IMHO is consistency with the POSIX system > calls. > > I guess as long as you use usec, at least it won't be a pain to use. Andrew suggested to use nanoseconds there in u64 variable. I think it is ok. > Rakshasa -- Evgeniy Polyakov - 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