device_get_mac_address(9)

🎀 device_get_mac_address(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this is the page for device_get_mac_address, and no cap, it's a little one but it's iconic in its own way 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

device_get_mac_address — get the MAC for a given device 🫶

like literally, that's the whole vibe. it gets you the MAC address for a device you hand it. periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int device_get_mac_address (struct device *dev , char *addr );

yep that's it, that's the whole signature, and yes the spacing is exactly like that, don't @ me 😭 — copy it verbatim or the compiler will simply vibe check you into next week 💀

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• dev — Pointer to the device 👑 this is the main character, the one you're asking about. it's a struct device *, so pointer-city, as per usual.
• addr — Address of buffer to store the MAC in 🎀 not the MAC itself, bestie — the address of the buffer where the MAC is gonna live. subtle but highkey important, iykyk ✨

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

sooo much good stuff to read next, we love a well-connected friend group 🌈 — and yes, these are literally all of them, lowkey obsessed:

• Kernel file ./net/ethernet/eth.c — that's the file where this whole situation lives, for reference 🍓
• eth_header(9)
• eth_get_headlen(9)
• eth_type_trans(9)
• eth_header_cache(9)
• eth_header_cache_update(9)
• eth_header_parse_protocol(9)
• eth_prepare_mac_addr_change(9)
• eth_commit_mac_addr_change(9)
• eth_mac_addr(9)
• ether_setup(9)
• alloc_etherdev_mqs(9)
• platform_get_ethdev_address(9)
• nvmem_get_mac_address(9)
• fwnode_get_mac_address(9)
• device_get_ethdev_address(9)

like go read them, they're all friends of the family 💜 and fr fr, device_get_ethdev_address(9) is right there next door, say hi 🧚

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💡 friendly reminder: this page is short and sweet and it doesn't spill extra tea — everything it says, it says up there. no invented behaviour, no guessing, we stay accurate in this house 😤

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 stay slay, stay pointer-safe, and remember: ./net/ethernet, October 2026, device_get_mac_address(9) — mwah, catch you in the next manpage ✨🎀🦋