Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 01:49:44PM CEST, [email protected] wrote: >Permanent hardware address of a network device was traditionally provided >via ethtool ioctl interface but as Jiri Pirko pointed out in a review of >ethtool netlink interface, rtnetlink is much more suitable for it so let's >add it to the RTM_NEWLINK message. > >Add IFLA_PERM_ADDRESS attribute to RTM_NEWLINK messages unless the >permanent address is all zeros (i.e. device driver did not fill it). As >permanent address is not modifiable, reject userspace requests containing >IFLA_PERM_ADDRESS attribute. > >Note: we already provide permanent hardware address for bond slaves; >unfortunately we cannot drop that attribute for backward compatibility >reasons. > >v5 -> v6: only add the attribute if permanent address is not zero > >Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
