On 08/23/2012 03:38 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:29:54 -0400
Vlad Yasevich [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Add a private ioctl to add and remove vlan configuration on bridge port.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <redacted>
---
  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