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

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Message-ID: <20110607165421.68760205@s6510.ftrdhcpuser.net>
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That is really old, even Debian Lenny isn't that out of date.
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