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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200
commite75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch)
treeccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /include/linux/etherdevice.h
parent61282f37927143e45b03153f3e7b48d6b702147a (diff)
parent0034102808e0dbbf3a2394b82b1bb40b5778de9e (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next. Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/etherdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/etherdevice.h13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 05955cf0993..8a1835855fa 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);
}
/**