In article <1037116836.8500.55.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (at 12 Nov 2002 16:00:36 +0000), Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> says:
> 2. Add some new address setting ioctls, and ensure the old ones keep the
> old address length limit. That is needed because the old caller wont
> have allocated enough address space for a 20 byte address return.
>
> You have to solve both though, and the first patch should probably be
> the one to add more sensible address set/get functions.
*BSDs have SIOCGLIFPHYADDR etc., but, they're obsolete;
we should use rtnetlink (or routing socket in BSDs) to manage
addresses. So, not having such ioctls for long addresses
would be ok.
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