From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: uclibc@uclibc.org,
"Harald =?ISO-8859-1?B?S/x0aGUi?=
<Harald.Kuethe@controlware.de>"@osdl.org, bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [uClibc] Re: [Bridge] Little problem with 1.x versions (if_indextoname)
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 02:42:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040612084211.GB3491@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040603104100.2ae94cb2@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
On Thu Jun 03, 2004 at 10:41:00AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Rather than copy more code back into the bridge-utilities, how
> about applying this change to uClibc? I hate when packages get
> cluttered for workarounds for other incompatibilities.
>
> The problem is that SIOCGIFCONF only lists interfaces that have
> IP addresses, so it doesn't find the other interfaces that are
> being used for bridging. It could be fixed in the kernel to
> return all interfaces, but then something else might break; and
> still it mean a kernel update for the 2.4 users.
>
> The whole use of ifindex in the bridge API is a bad idea. But
> we probably have to live with it for compatibility.
Thanks. Patch applied,
-Erik
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2004-06-03 7:37 [Bridge] Little problem with 1.x versions (if_indextoname) Harald Küthe
2004-06-03 17:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-06-12 8:42 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
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