Re: [PATCH net-next v6 01/15] rtnetlink: provide permanent hardware address in RTM_NEWLINK

2019-07-02 Thread Michal Kubecek
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 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 > >

Re: [PATCH net-next v6 01/15] rtnetlink: provide permanent hardware address in RTM_NEWLINK

2019-07-02 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:49:44 +0200 (CEST) Michal Kubecek 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 >

Re: [PATCH net-next v6 01/15] rtnetlink: provide permanent hardware address in RTM_NEWLINK

2019-07-02 Thread Jiri Pirko
Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 01:49:44PM CEST, 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

[PATCH net-next v6 01/15] rtnetlink: provide permanent hardware address in RTM_NEWLINK

2019-07-02 Thread Michal Kubecek
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