This patch implements the ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR command in order to retrieve
the permanent address from ethtool instead using command line tool.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
According to PEP8 [1], the import are always put at the top of the file,
just after any module comments and docstrings, and before module globals
and constants.
[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
It was rather confusing whether the boolean return value meant
that the timeout was reached or the opposite.
Rename the internal variable, I think now it's quite clear.
