netdev - Re: [RFC] should we care of COMPAT mode in bridge ?

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Date:	Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:23:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] should we care of COMPAT mode in bridge ?

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:19:33 +0200

> I think it would be good to first understand why it doesn't work with the
> new style ioctls that are in the kernel. The source code of brctl that
> I'm looking at here contains:

Eric's 32-bit binary was built against older headers that didn't
define the new ioctls.

That makes it pretty clear to me that we have to support those
older ioctls in compat mode even after all these years.
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