Commit fbdeca2d authored Jan 01, 2013 by Jiri Pirko Committed by David S. Miller Jan 03, 2013

net: add address assign type "SET"



This is the way to indicate that mac address of a device has been set by
dev_set_mac_address()

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent e41b2d7f

include/linux/netdevice.h

+2 −0

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	@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ struct wireless_dev;
	#define NET_ADDR_PERM 0 /* address is permanent (default) */		#define NET_ADDR_PERM 0 /* address is permanent (default) */
	#define NET_ADDR_RANDOM 1 /* address is generated randomly */		#define NET_ADDR_RANDOM 1 /* address is generated randomly */
	#define NET_ADDR_STOLEN 2 /* address is stolen from other device */		#define NET_ADDR_STOLEN 2 /* address is stolen from other device */
			#define NET_ADDR_SET 3 /* address is set using
			* dev_set_mac_address() */

	/* Backlog congestion levels */		/* Backlog congestion levels */
	#define NET_RX_SUCCESS 0 /* keep 'em coming, baby */		#define NET_RX_SUCCESS 0 /* keep 'em coming, baby */

net/core/dev.c

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	@@ -5022,6 +5022,7 @@ int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device dev, struct sockaddr sa)
	err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa);		err = ops->ndo_set_mac_address(dev, sa);
	if (err)		if (err)
	return err;		return err;
			dev->addr_assign_type = NET_ADDR_SET;
	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, dev);		call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, dev);
	add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);		add_device_randomness(dev->dev_addr, dev->addr_len);
	return 0;		return 0;