Re: [PATCH] Compat32 setsockopt overzealous conversions

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:53:18 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2.4.x patch applied, thanks David.

> Back in the real world of 2.6, we REALLY do need to stop trying to do
> all this in a sockopt syscall wrapper, and instead pass down a 32/64 bit
> flag to the code which actually handles the sockopt -- although the
> optlen ought to be sufficient for the _majority_ of cases. Or maybe we
> should handle it like we do ioctls? 

That latter idea (doing it like ioctls) is an option, and in
fact I like it since it would allow us to push the complicated
netfilter translators into the netfilter code.