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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Subject: Re: SIOCADDMULTI for unicast broken
Date: 06 Jan 2003 16:00:33 +0100
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

> No!  procfs additions are discouraged.  sysfs in 2.5.x if you _must_
> do this, but SIOCDEVPRIVATE or just flat out maintaining a kernel
> patch against a stable kernel tree would be much preferred, I think.

Still, SIOCDEVPRIVATE should _not_, in my opinion, be used for anything
but hacks.
For example, we should stop using it for configuring ethernet bridges:

net/bridge/br_device.c: if (cmd != SIOCDEVPRIVATE)
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Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator