Hi,

Any news on this?  This touches only files in sysdeps/mach/hurd, and
we're happy to have this in 00list.hurd-i386.  


thanks,

Michael

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:19:18PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> The following patch by Marco Gerards is the glibc part of SIOCGIFHWADDR
> support for pfinet on the Hurd. This is needed e.g. for dhclient to
> properly transmit the MAC-address to the server, so IP addresses can get
> handed out based on the hardware address. Otherwise, DHCP would be
> quite limited.
> 
> The patch was submitted in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2004-08/msg00014.html
> and mostly acked by Marcus Brinkmann in
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2005-02/msg00106.html
> requesting minor changes which are not applicable to the glibc part of
> the patch.
> 
> Please apply.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Michael

> 2004-08-03  Marco Gerards  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
>       * sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/ioctls.h (SIOCGIFHWADDR): New macro.
> 
> Index: sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/ioctls.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/ioctls.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.7
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.7 ioctls.h
> --- sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/ioctls.h   6 Jul 2001 04:55:58 -0000       1.7
> +++ sysdeps/mach/hurd/bits/ioctls.h   3 Aug 2004 13:55:34 -0000
> @@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ enum __ioctl_datum { IOC_8, IOC_16, IOC_
>  #define      SIOCSIFADDR     _IOW('i', 12, struct ifreq)     /* set ifnet 
> address */
>  #define      OSIOCGIFADDR    _IOWR('i',13, struct ifreq)     /* get ifnet 
> address */
>  #define      SIOCGIFADDR     _IOWR('i',33, struct ifreq)     /* get ifnet 
> address */
> +#define      SIOCGIFHWADDR   _IOWR('i',39, struct ifreq)     /* get 
> hwaddress */
>  #define      SIOCSIFDSTADDR  _IOW('i', 14, struct ifreq)     /* set p-p 
> address */
>  #define      OSIOCGIFDSTADDR _IOWR('i',15, struct ifreq)     /* get p-p 
> address */
>  #define      SIOCGIFDSTADDR  _IOWR('i',34, struct ifreq)     /* get p-p 
> address */



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