From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugs at busybox.net Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:27:37 -0700 Subject: [Buildroot] [buildroot 0004844]: Bridge-utils broken under kernel 2.4 Message-ID: <5b5158aae56af4704e1be136202e1c9b@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 00:27 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. 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 ======================================================================