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author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
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committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
commit | e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch) | |
tree | ccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /include/linux/etherdevice.h | |
parent | 61282f37927143e45b03153f3e7b48d6b702147a (diff) | |
parent | 0034102808e0dbbf3a2394b82b1bb40b5778de9e (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.h | 13 |
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); } /** |