On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:40:07PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Jon Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Patch 2.6 3/3]ioctl: Add support for getting a permanent hardware > address > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:43:50 -0500 > > > This patch is the third of three, designed to allow access to the > > permanent hardware address of a network device. This patch adds a new > > ioctl to get the field, "perm_addr," which was added to net_device by > > the first patch. > > No new BSD style device ioctls, _please_! > > If we want to create new facilities, they should be done via > netlink and possibly the ethtool interfaces.
Jon's patch 1/3 created the ethtool interface, 2/3 fixed up e1000 to use it. 3/3 can be dropped as you desire. Do you want a patch for netlink too then, given the ethtool kernel work is already done? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
