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Subject: Re: [RFC] should we care of COMPAT mode in bridge ?
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:51:34 -0700

> The problem is that most of the other ioctl's won't work because of use of
> SIOCDEVPRIVATE.

As we discussed we can pass SIOCDEVPRIVATE requests down to the driver
just like we do for all kinds of other compat ioctls.