Linux Ethernet Bridging - May 2008 - [Bridge] [RFA, PATCH] enable transition to sysfs-only bridge manipulation

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
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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.