[Bridge] new ioctl

[Bridge] new ioctl

[munro]

Hi, all,

I am a newbie. i wish to add another ioctl into brctl for doing some 
manipulations. How do i do so??

Please advise on the steps.

Regards,
Munro

RE: [Bridge] new ioctl

[Steve Lazaridis]

Take a look at net/bridge/br.c and net/bridge/br_ioctl.c
 
Steve
 
 
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	Hi, all,
	
	I am a newbie. i wish to add another ioctl into brctl for doing some
	manipulations. How do i do so??
	
	Please advise on the steps.
	
	Regards,
	Munro
	
	

Re: [Bridge] new ioctl

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:51:38 +0800
munro <munro.biswal@smartbridges.com> wrote:

> Hi, all,
> 
> I am a newbie. i wish to add another ioctl into brctl for doing some 
> manipulations. How do i do so??
> 
> Please advise on the steps.
> 

I moved away from using ioctl's for doing bridge stuff and used 
sysfs instead for the newer API's in 2.6. The problem was that
it is impossible to to use device private ioctl's in a mixed
32bit/64bit environment.  If you look at the ioctl translation
code in kernel/compat.c you will see how the bridge specific
ioctl's are translated.  But the SIOCDEVPRIVATE one's couldn't
easily be fixed.