From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugs at busybox.net Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:57:43 -0700 Subject: [Buildroot] [buildroot 0004844]: Bridge-utils broken under kernel 2.4 Message-ID: <4f8be8179165fb693c41040ed428ac01@busybox.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=4844 ====================================================================== Reported By: Feynman Assigned To: buildroot ====================================================================== Project: buildroot Issue ID: 4844 Category: Architecture Specific Reproducibility: always Severity: block Priority: normal Status: assigned ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 09-08-2008 11:05 PDT Last Modified: 09-09-2008 16:57 PDT ====================================================================== Summary: Bridge-utils broken under kernel 2.4 Description: Snapshot buildroot-20080905 The bridge-utils package compiles but the brctl command fails. The error message is: # brctl addbr br0 add bridge failed: Invalid argument I think this is a problem with the bridge-utils 1.4. The former version 1.06 works fine. My configuration is: 386, kernel 2.4, busybox 1.11.x The project is openMGB, a RDC based NAS with WAP. ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jacmet - 09-08-08 11:26 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't have access to any system with a 2.4 kernel anymore - Does it work if you change the version in bridge.mk back to v1.06? If so, please report the problem with bridge-utils upstream. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hmoffatt - 09-08-08 18:11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.4 seems to use /sys/class/net which wouldn't exist on linux 2.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jacmet - 09-09-08 00:27 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The README claims to only use sysfs stuff on 2.6 kernels, but I don't see any fallback code. Probably the README is just stale - The bridge-utils upsteam tarball seems pretty broken in general (no configure, configure.in using wrong version, stale README, ..) I don't have a problem with reverting to 1.06 if that fixes the bug reporter's issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hmoffatt - 09-09-08 06:15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Do we need to support 2.4? I don't think you can build it using buildroot? I would've expected a project that is using current buildroot and current busybox to also run a current kernel.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jacmet - 09-09-08 08:39 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't personally have any interest in 2.4, but if we can keep it working with small effort, then that's fine with me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Feynman - 09-09-08 08:47 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok. I've changed the version in the brdige.mk file to 1.0.6 but the autoreconf fails: [...] >>> bridge 1.0.6 Running autoreconf autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I /home/welzel/naswork/openMGB/build/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/usr/share/aclocal --force autoreconf: configure.in: tracing autoreconf: configure.in: not using Libtool autoreconf: running: /home/welzel/naswork/openMGB/build/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/usr/bin/autoconf --include=/home/welzel/naswork/openMGB/build/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/usr/share/aclocal --force autoreconf: running: /home/welzel/naswork/openMGB/build/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/usr/bin/autoheader --include=/home/welzel/naswork/openMGB/build/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/usr/share/aclocal --force autoheader: warning: missing template: HAVE_LIBSYSFS autoheader: Use AC_DEFINE([HAVE_LIBSYSFS], [], [Description]) autoreconf: /home/welzel/naswork/openMGB/build/buildroot/build_i386/staging_dir/usr/bin/autoheader failed with exit status: 1 make[1]: *** [/home/welzel/naswork/openMGB/build/buildroot/build_i386/bridge-1.0.6/.stamp_autoconfigured] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/welzel/naswork/openMGB/build/buildroot' make: *** [toolchain] Fehler 2 It would be fine if buildroot supports kernel 2.4. It's right, you can't built the kernel 2.4 with buildroot but we can build it seperately. The project openMGB must use the kernel 2.4 because the WLAN driver for the Ralink chipset (RT2560) is not working properly for the kernel 2.6. Only the WLAN client is working. Not the access point driver (WLAN AP). So we must use the "old" kernel 2.4. I hope it is possible to support both version: the "old" 1.0.6 within the kernel 2.4 and the "new" version 2.4 within the kernel 2.6. Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jacmet - 09-09-08 08:49 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please set BRIDGE_AUTORECONF to NO and try again ---------------------------------------------------------------------- hmoffatt - 09-09-08 16:57 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent busybox has brctl built in - maybe that will work on 2.4? Better than reverting bridge-utils to an old version. Although according to the changelog not a lot changed between 1.06 and 1.4 anyway (I'm not sure why the version number jumped so much) Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 09-08-08 11:05 Feynman New Issue 09-08-08 11:05 Feynman Status new => assigned 09-08-08 11:05 Feynman Assigned To => buildroot 09-08-08 11:26 jacmet Note Added: 0011194 09-08-08 18:11 hmoffatt Note Added: 0011214 09-09-08 00:27 jacmet Note Added: 0011224 09-09-08 06:15 hmoffatt Note Added: 0011234 09-09-08 08:39 jacmet Note Added: 0011244 09-09-08 08:47 Feynman Note Added: 0011254 09-09-08 08:49 jacmet Note Added: 0011264 09-09-08 16:57 hmoffatt Note Added: 0011274 ======================================================================