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EMAC Link Status

In C code, I'm trying to retrieve the emac link status, speed, and duplex. I made a system call to "cat /proc/net/emac_link" and parsed the output. But this takes WAY too much time (around 75ms). Is there a faster (and better) way to get this information, say, through a driver IOCTL?

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  • VFaul
    VFaul Posts: 4
    #include <errno.h>
    #include <linux/ethtool.h>
    #include <linux/sockios.h>
    #include <net/if.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <sys/ioctl.h>

    int main ( int argc, char **argv )
    {
    struct ifreq ifr;
    int sock = socket ( AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0 );
    struct ethtool_cmd edata;
    char ifname[32];
    int result;

    strcpy ( ifname, "eth0" );
    strncpy ( ifr.ifr_name, ifname, sizeof ( ifr.ifr_name ));
    ifr.ifr_addr.sa_family = AF_INET;

    result = ioctl ( sock, SIOCGIFFLAGS, &ifr );
    if ( result == 0 ) {
    // successfully got the flags
    if ( ifr.ifr_flags | IFF_UP ) {
    printf ( "Ethernet interface is up\n" );
    }
    else {
    printf ( "Ethernet interface is down\n" );
    }
    }
    else {
    printf ( "%s: Error getting ethernet flags. %s (%d)\n",
    __FUNCTION__,
    strerror ( errno ),
    errno );
    }

    ifr.ifr_data = (char *) &edata;
    edata.cmd = ETHTOOL_GSET;
    result = ioctl ( sock, SIOCETHTOOL, &ifr );
    if ( result == 0 ) {
    switch ( edata.speed ) {
    case SPEED_10:
    printf ( "Speed is 10Mbps\n" );
    break;
    case SPEED_100:
    printf ( "Speed is 100Mbps\n" );
    break;
    case SPEED_1000:
    printf ( "Speed is 1Gbps\n" );
    break;
    case SPEED_10000:
    printf ( "Speed is 10Gbps\n" );
    break;
    default:
    printf ( "Speed (%d) is unknown\n", edata.speed );
    break;
    }

    if ( edata.duplex == DUPLEX_HALF ){
    printf ( "Half duplex\n" );
    }
    else {
    printf ( "Full duplex\n" );
    }
    }
    else {
    printf ( "%s: Error getting ethernet info. %s (%d)\n",
    __FUNCTION__,
    strerror ( errno ),
    errno );
    }
    return 0;
    }

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