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| author | Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> | 2011-05-07 23:00:07 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-05-09 12:10:49 -0700 |
| commit | 4940fc889e1e63667a15243028ddcd84d471cd8e (patch) | |
| tree | c52bb193d0ad4f13e0f617748ed1db297261f521 /include/linux/if_ether.h | |
| parent | 99f823f98fb981b55c663a3783c3d2293958ece4 (diff) | |
net: add mac_pton() for parsing MAC address
mac_pton() parses MAC address in form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and only in that form.
mac_pton() doesn't dirty result until it's sure string representation is valid.
mac_pton() doesn't care about characters _after_ last octet,
it's up to caller to deal with it.
mac_pton() diverges from 0/-E return value convention.
Target usage:
if (!mac_pton(str, whatever->mac))
return -EINVAL;
/* ->mac being u8 [ETH_ALEN] is filled at this point. */
/* optionally check str[3 * ETH_ALEN - 1] for termination */
Use mac_pton() in pktgen and netconsole for start.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/if_ether.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/if_ether.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/if_ether.h b/include/linux/if_ether.h index be69043d289..0f1325d9829 100644 --- a/include/linux/if_ether.h +++ b/include/linux/if_ether.h @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ int eth_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr); extern struct ctl_table ether_table[]; #endif +int mac_pton(const char *s, u8 *mac); extern ssize_t sysfs_format_mac(char *buf, const unsigned char *addr, int len); #endif |