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

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Message-Id: <20110607.172727.634954568306893152.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:27:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] should we care of COMPAT mode in bridge ?

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.
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