On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 07:55:00AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:49:44 +0200 (CEST) > Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz> 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 <mkube...@suse.cz> > > Do you want to make an iproute patch to display this?
Yes, I'm going to submit it once this patch gets into net-next. Michal > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
