[Bridge] [RFA, PATCH] enable transition to sysfs-only bridge manipulation

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Fri May 2 09:30:39 PDT 2008


On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:17:46AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>On Fri, 2 May 2008 11:01:38 +0200
>Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> It was rumored that the ioctl interface for bridges is deprecated.
>> There is, however, one crucial gap when trying to implement brctl
>> without using any ioctl: AFAICS it is impossible to create a bridge via
>> sysfs.
>> 
>> The attached quick.. erm patch strives to fill this gap.
>> Some further details are at the top of the patchlet which received only
>> cursory testing, fwiw.
>> 
>> Thanks and cheers,
>> Bernhard
>
>Why bother. The old API has to live on because it part of the
>kernel ABI.

I'm bothering since i either want the ioctl interface _or_ the sysfs
interface. I currently use the ioctl interface but as long as the sysfs
is incomplete i cannot switch to it even if i wanted.


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