DPDK patches and discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Long Li <longli@linuxonhyperv.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/netvsc: support VF device hot add/remove
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:51:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201221155157.374d990b@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1608586402-20145-1-git-send-email-longli@linuxonhyperv.com>

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:33:22 -0800
Long Li <longli@linuxonhyperv.com> wrote:

> 	/* trying to get mac address if this is a network device*/
> +		s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP);
> +		if (s == -1) {
> +			PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to create socket errno %d\n",
> +				    errno);
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		strlcpy(req.ifr_name, dir->d_name, sizeof(req.ifr_name));
> +		ret = ioctl(s, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &req);
> +		close(s);
> +		if (ret == -1) {
> +			PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to send SIOCGIFHWADDR for "
> +				    "device %s\n", dir->d_name);
> +			break;
> +		}
> +		if (req.ifr_hwaddr.sa_family != ARPHRD_ETHER) {
> +			closedir(di);
> +			return;
> +		}

You have sysfs directory open at this point, would it be easier to continue
with sysfs to find the mac address?
	
		snprintf(ifpath, sizeof(ifpath), "%s/address", dir->d_name);
		fd = openat(dirfd(di), ifpath, O_RDONLY);
		read(fd...)


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-21 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-01  7:56 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal/hotplug: allow monitor to be setup by multiple places Long Li
2020-12-01  7:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] net/netvsc: support VF device hot add/remove Long Li
2020-12-21 21:33   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Long Li
2020-12-21 23:51     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2021-01-06  2:50       ` Long Li
2020-12-17 15:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal/hotplug: allow monitor to be setup by multiple places Luca Boccassi
2020-12-17 22:37   ` Long Li
2020-12-21 21:32 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Long Li
2021-01-17 21:26   ` Thomas Monjalon

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20201221155157.374d990b@hermes.local \
    --to=stephen@networkplumber.org \
    --cc=dev@dpdk.org \
    --cc=longli@linuxonhyperv.com \
    --cc=longli@microsoft.com \
    --cc=sthemmin@microsoft.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).