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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] should we care of COMPAT mode in bridge ?
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:03:09 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:45:40 +0200

> While trying Alexander Holler patch, I found a 32bit brctl program was
> not able to work on a 64bit kernel. So I had to switch to another
> machine for my tests.
> 
> brctl addbr mybridge
> ->
> socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 3
> ioctl(3, SIOCSIFBR, 0xffd509c0)         = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 
> Should we care or not ?

I think we should make an effort to fix this.