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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: RFC:  Redirect-Device
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:52:29 -0800
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On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:45:38 -0800
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:

> > 	Adding new ioctl's are very frowned on
> 
> Bummer.  I want these as well, makes programatic reading of the information
> much easier than trying to parse some proc file.  I will look into what it
> takes to make them compat with 64-bit as DaveM suggested.

You could extend and use ethtool.  That is what it's there for.