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

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Message-ID: <20110608090813.335673d9@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net>
Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2011 09:08:13 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] should we care of COMPAT mode in bridge ?

On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:51:34 -0700
> 
> > The problem is that most of the other ioctl's won't work because of use of
> > SIOCDEVPRIVATE.
> 
> As we discussed we can pass SIOCDEVPRIVATE requests down to the driver
> just like we do for all kinds of other compat ioctls.

Ok. patches accepted, but not spending my time on it.
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