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| author | 2012-03-27 11:32:29 -0300 | |
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| committer | 2012-03-27 11:32:29 -0300 | |
| commit | 50953e0640b3473dcb409d5d0d938c2742c93b0d (patch) | |
| tree | 3b0dc374e61564fbbd8adff92c8fae16fdeb423a /include/linux/etherdevice.h | |
| parent | [media] update CARDLIST.em28xx (diff) | |
| parent | poll: add poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() functions (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-50953e0640b3473dcb409d5d0d938c2742c93b0d.tar.xz linux-dev-50953e0640b3473dcb409d5d0d938c2742c93b0d.zip | |
Merge branch 'poll' into staging/for_v3.4
* poll: (5970 commits)
poll: add poll_requested_events() and poll_does_not_wait() functions
crc32: select an algorithm via Kconfig
crc32: add self-test code for crc32c
crypto: crc32c should use library implementation
crc32: bolt on crc32c
crc32: add note about this patchset to crc32.c
crc32: optimize loop counter for x86
crc32: add slice-by-8 algorithm to existing code
crc32: make CRC_*_BITS definition correspond to actual bit counts
crc32: fix mixing of endian-specific types
crc32: miscellaneous cleanups
crc32: simplify unit test code
crc32: move long comment about crc32 fundamentals to Documentation/
crc32: remove two instances of trailing whitespaces
checkpatch: check for quoted strings broken across lines
checkpatch: whitespace - add/remove blank lines
checkpatch: warn on use of yield()
checkpatch: add --strict tests for braces, comments and casts
checkpatch: add [] to type extensions
checkpatch: high precedence operators do not require additional parentheses in #defines
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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/etherdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/etherdevice.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index 05955cf09937..8a1835855faa 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -140,17 +140,18 @@ static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr) } /** - * dev_hw_addr_random - Create random MAC and set device flag + * eth_hw_addr_random - Generate software assigned random Ethernet and + * set device flag * @dev: pointer to net_device structure - * @hwaddr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address * - * Generate random MAC to be used by a device and set addr_assign_type - * so the state can be read by sysfs and be used by udev. + * Generate a random Ethernet address (MAC) to be used by a net device + * and set addr_assign_type so the state can be read by sysfs and be + * used by userspace. */ -static inline void dev_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev, u8 *hwaddr) +static inline void eth_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev) { dev->addr_assign_type |= NET_ADDR_RANDOM; - random_ether_addr(hwaddr); + random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr); } /** |
