how to get mac address info in kernel code?

[George Neville-Neil]

On Mar 5, 2013, at 08:54 , h bagade <bagadeh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I need to get interface MAC address within the kernel code and I couldn't
> use "getifaddrs" because it's user-mode. How can I have the MAC address
> information within kernel code?
> 
> Any hints or comments are really appreciated.

If you have access to the struct ifnet you can look at the if_addr member, which is
a struct ifaddr, defined in if_var.h .

Best,
George