[Buildroot] [buildroot 0004844]: Bridge-utils broken under kernel 2.4
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Tue Sep 9 15:39:38 UTC 2008
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=4844
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Reported By: Feynman
Assigned To: buildroot
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Project: buildroot
Issue ID: 4844
Category: Architecture Specific
Reproducibility: always
Severity: block
Priority: normal
Status: assigned
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Date Submitted: 09-08-2008 11:05 PDT
Last Modified: 09-09-2008 08:39 PDT
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Summary: Bridge-utils broken under kernel 2.4
Description:
Snapshot buildroot-20080905
The bridge-utils package compiles but the brctl command fails.
The error message is:
# brctl addbr br0
add bridge failed: Invalid argument
I think this is a problem with the bridge-utils 1.4. The former version
1.06 works fine.
My configuration is: 386, kernel 2.4, busybox 1.11.x
The project is openMGB, a RDC based NAS with WAP.
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jacmet - 09-08-08 11:26
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I don't have access to any system with a 2.4 kernel anymore - Does it work
if you change the version in bridge.mk back to v1.06? If so, please report
the problem with bridge-utils upstream.
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hmoffatt - 09-08-08 18:11
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1.4 seems to use /sys/class/net which wouldn't exist on linux 2.4
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jacmet - 09-09-08 00:27
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The README claims to only use sysfs stuff on 2.6 kernels, but I don't see
any fallback code. Probably the README is just stale - The bridge-utils
upsteam tarball seems pretty broken in general (no configure, configure.in
using wrong version, stale README, ..)
I don't have a problem with reverting to 1.06 if that fixes the bug
reporter's issue.
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hmoffatt - 09-09-08 06:15
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Do we need to support 2.4? I don't think you can build it using buildroot?
I would've expected a project that is using current buildroot and current
busybox to also run a current kernel..
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jacmet - 09-09-08 08:39
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I don't personally have any interest in 2.4, but if we can keep it working
with small effort, then that's fine with me.
Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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09-08-08 11:05 Feynman New Issue
09-08-08 11:05 Feynman Status new => assigned
09-08-08 11:05 Feynman Assigned To => buildroot
09-08-08 11:26 jacmet Note Added: 0011194
09-08-08 18:11 hmoffatt Note Added: 0011214
09-09-08 00:27 jacmet Note Added: 0011224
09-09-08 06:15 hmoffatt Note Added: 0011234
09-09-08 08:39 jacmet Note Added: 0011244
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