From: Jon Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Patch 2.6 3/3]ioctl: Add support for getting a permanent hardware 
address
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:43:50 -0500

> This patch is the third of three, designed to allow access to the 
> permanent hardware address of a network device.  This patch adds a new 
> ioctl to get the field, "perm_addr," which was added to net_device by
> the first patch.  
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

No new BSD style device ioctls, _please_!

If we want to create new facilities, they should be done via
netlink and possibly the ethtool interfaces.
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