From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 00:23:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA21910 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21904 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA21049; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:22:10 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA11544; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:22:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id JAA01773; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:15:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610240715.JAA01773@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Linux emulation, gethostid() To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:15:52 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610240133.LAA03711@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 24, 96 11:03:35 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > What do you need it for in an LKM? > > Note the original topic; what I am trying to do is provide a means for > emulating the Linux ioctl used for getting the ethernet hardware address. And i tried you to prove that there's no actual need for getting the _ethernet_ hardware address. You can put all the ethernet (or whatever) stuff into userland, to be run at /etc/rc time. Inside the kernel, there's the kernel-internal `hostid' variable available anyway, or you can alternatively wrap Linux' gethostid() around BSD's ogethostid() syscall. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)