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| author | Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> | 2008-02-04 22:31:25 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 09:44:31 -0800 |
| commit | 2278c5ac9d39699bac44250b9c532de0c02cb16a (patch) | |
| tree | 3c205ade052aad867a7a4ae06ddfe4f6d9e0878f /arch/um | |
| parent | cc0be0fb3fd4bd2c363ef1b5c968cd6f2ce478cf (diff) | |
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uml: use of a public MAC is a warning, not an error
Downgrade one of the MAC validity checks. If it's one that could be possibly
assigned to a physical NIC, then nothing will break. So, emit a warning in
this case, but keep the requested MAC.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c index ca71577..1e8f41a 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr, char *name) if (str == NULL) goto random; - for (i = 0;i < 6; i++) { + for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) { addr[i] = simple_strtoul(str, &end, 16); if ((end == str) || ((*end != ':') && (*end != ',') && (*end != '\0'))) { @@ -343,14 +343,13 @@ static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr, char *name) } if (!is_local_ether_addr(addr)) { printk(KERN_WARNING - "Warning: attempt to assign a globally valid ethernet " + "Warning: Assigning a globally valid ethernet " "address to a device\n"); - printk(KERN_WARNING "You should better enable the 2nd " - "rightmost bit in the first byte of the MAC,\n"); + printk(KERN_WARNING "You should set the 2nd rightmost bit in " + "the first byte of the MAC,\n"); printk(KERN_WARNING "i.e. %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n", addr[0] | 0x02, addr[1], addr[2], addr[3], addr[4], addr[5]); - goto random; } return; |