From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [RFC] should we care of COMPAT mode in bridge ? Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:34:03 +0200 Message-ID: <1307392443.2642.17.camel@edumazet-laptop> References: <1307389540.2642.3.camel@edumazet-laptop> <20110606.130309.847468074358617705.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Schwab Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:46629 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757354Ab1FFUeK (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:34:10 -0400 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so4209009wwa.1 for ; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:34:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le lundi 06 juin 2011 =C3=A0 22:31 +0200, Andreas Schwab a =C3=A9crit : > OTOH, the SIOCSIFBR and SIOCGIFBR ioctls are obsoleted by the > SIOCBRADDBR, SIOCBRDELBR, SIOCBRADDIF, SIOCBRDELIF ioctls and bridge > sysfs files (which have no compat issues). >=20 Yep, unless you are stuck with an old binary :)