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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
index ca71577f3630..1e8f41a99511 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;