Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:15:52 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Linux emulation, gethostid() Message-ID: <199610240715.JAA01773@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610240133.LAA03711@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Oct 24, 96 11:03:35 am"
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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. ;-)
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