Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH bridge 4/5] bridge: Add private ioctls to configure vlans on bridge ports

From: Vlad Yasevich <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:41:00 -0400

On 08/23/2012 03:38 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:29:54 -0400
> Vlad Yasevich <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Add a private ioctl to add and remove vlan configuration on bridge port.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>   include/linux/if_bridge.h |    2 +
>>   net/bridge/br_if.c        |   69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   net/bridge/br_ioctl.c     |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>   net/bridge/br_private.h   |    2 +
>>   4 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
> Don't go down this dead end.
>
> The ioctl interface to bridge is deprecated because private ioctl's
> can not be handled when running 32 bit user space on 64 bit kernel.
>

Went down this road because is was easier to do.  The plan is to do this 
over netlink

-vlad