I am making a module in which I require the mac address of network interface . Is there any function through which I can find the mac address without doing ioctl in user space.
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I am making a module in which I require the mac address of network interface . Is there any function through which I can find the mac address without doing ioctl in user space.
You don’t specify which kernel version you’re using. This is based on the latest 3.something version, but it should be very similar for older versions:
Assuming you have the struct net_device (and if you don’t, you’re probably doing something wrong), you can just look at the dev_addrs field. It contains a list of all of the devices hardware addresses.
The is_etherdev_addr function in include/linux/etherdevice.h is probably a good example on how to read it.