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

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Message-ID: <AANLkTin3V7LtmhDAOktNF1UITM86sJwButxCQ3vo31lv@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:29:06 -0400
From:	Chetan Loke <chetanloke@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	"Loke, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@...scout.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enhance dev_ioctl to return <hwaddr>:<if_name::if_index> 
	mapping

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:12:24 -0400
> "Loke, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@...scout.com> wrote:
>
>> > -----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?
>
> Simple way:
>   Use SIOCGIFCONF to get list of interfaces
>   Use SIOCGIFHWADDR to read device addresss
>
And interfaces that don't have IP's?
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