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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2012-05-24 01:13:01 -0700 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2012-05-24 01:13:01 -0700 |
| commit | e644dae645e167d154c0526358940986682a72b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 972993c6568085b8d407fc7e13de10f4b93c651d /include/linux/etherdevice.h | |
| parent | 899c612d74d4a242158a4db20367388d6299c028 (diff) | |
| parent | 86809173ce32ef03bd4d0389dfc72df0c805e9c4 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
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); } /** |