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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add --disable-bridge-helper configure flag
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Il 10/07/2012 13:02, Fabien Chouteau ha scritto:
>>> >> Bridge helper uses ioctl's not available on old Linux versions, we add
>>> >> this flag to disable the build.
>> > 
>> > Which ioctls?  Please detect them, so that we can also work around them
>> > perhaps.
>> > 
> There SIOCBRADDIF at least, maybe it's the only one. 

So indeed you could also use SIOCDEVPRIVATE / BRCTL_ADD_IF if you were
inclined to do so...

Paolo