On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:10:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Am Monday 27 March 2006 20:42 schrieb Jean Tourrilhes:

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        Actually, when things are passed over RtNetlink, the pointer
is removed, and the content of IW_HEADER_TYPE_POINT is moved to not
leave a gap.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

So if the wireless ioctl interface ever got retired, that code could
get simplified a lot to just pass around a flat data structure, right?

	Arnd <><

	Actually, it could be removed *now*. You would just have to
fix all wireless drivers in existence. I will scratch my head to see
if we could plan a smooth transition.

	Jean