Hi! > > "ifconfig hw ether XX" normally sets the address. I guess that's > > ioctl? > > This sets temporary address and it is ioctl. IIRC same as what ethtool > uses. (ifconfig is already deprecated). > > > And I guess we should use similar mechanism for permanent > > address. > > I'm not sure here... Above ioctl ↑↑↑ is for changing temporary mac > address. But here we do not want to change permanent mac address. We > want to tell kernel driver current permanent mac address which is > stored
Well... I'd still use similar mechanism :-).
Pavel
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