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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 <mkubecek@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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