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[NET]: Add support for getting the permanent hardware address.

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This patch adds a new field to net device to hold the permanent
hardware address, and adds a new generic ethtool_op function to
get that address.

Signed-off-by: Jon Wetzel <jon_wetzel@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jon Wetzel
2005-08-20 17:15:54 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 8cd25c1fcf
commit a6f9a70578
3 changed files with 62 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/netdevice.h
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@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ struct net_device
/* Interface address info. */
unsigned char broadcast[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* hw bcast add */
unsigned char dev_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* hw address */
unsigned char perm_addr[MAX_ADDR_LEN]; /* permanent hw address */
unsigned char addr_len; /* hardware address length */
unsigned short dev_id; /* for shared network cards */