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From: Mohan Reddy <mohanreddykv@gmail.com>
Subject: Help On function to get IPV6 address of an interface in kernel
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:11:04 +0530
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Hi,

Is there a function or a way in kernel to get an interface ipv6 address if interface name or net_device object is known? I searched in the kernel i got a function ipv6_get_ifaddr(). But it is expecting an ipv6 address as a parameter. 

Thanks for your help in advance.

-Mohan Reddy