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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:54:21 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: arnd@...db.de, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] should we care of COMPAT mode in bridge ? On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:23:15 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > 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. That is really old, even Debian Lenny isn't that out of date. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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