From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
Cc: buytenh@gnu.org, rep.dot.nop@gmail.com,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFA, PATCH] enable transition to sysfs-only bridge manipulation
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 08:17:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502081746.64e967bb@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502090138.GA15508@mx.loc>
On Fri, 2 May 2008 11:01:38 +0200
Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was rumored that the ioctl interface for bridges is deprecated.
> There is, however, one crucial gap when trying to implement brctl
> without using any ioctl: AFAICS it is impossible to create a bridge via
> sysfs.
>
> The attached quick.. erm patch strives to fill this gap.
> Some further details are at the top of the patchlet which received only
> cursory testing, fwiw.
>
> Thanks and cheers,
> Bernhard
Why bother. The old API has to live on because it part of the
kernel ABI.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 9:01 [Bridge] [RFA, PATCH] enable transition to sysfs-only bridge manipulation Bernhard Fischer
2008-05-02 15:17 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-05-02 16:30 ` Bernhard Fischer
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