On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:36:05PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

 > 	i'm not sure if I'm correct, but I thought that jason suggested to
 > 	deprecate the old ioctl number and assign new ioctl number to
 > 	SIOCS80211NWID, so that:
 > 	- old binary would get EINVAL on new kernel
 > 	- new binary works happy with new kernel

It should be fine -- since the size of the argument changed, a new
ioctl value (as computed by the _IOW macro) is "magically" allocated.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>