netdev - RE: [RFC] Enhance dev_ioctl to return <hwaddr>:<if_name::if

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Message-ID: <D3F292ADF945FB49B35E96C94C2061B90C55C202@nsmail.netscout.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:12:24 -0400
From:	"Loke, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@...scout.com>
To:	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"Ben Hutchings" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	"Chetan Loke" <chetanloke@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] Enhance dev_ioctl to return <hwaddr>:<if_name::if_index>  mapping

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@...tta.com]
> Sent: July 16, 2010 2:04 PM
 
> The additional API is not needed. It is trivial to find address for
> device and do reverse mapping. Either with ioctl's 
Sorry, I might have missed it. But which ioctl would that be?

> or /sys/class/net/XXX/addr
So, is reading /sys/ nodes preferred over get-calls?

regards
Chetan Loke
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