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authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>2008-02-05 01:31:25 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 12:44:31 -0500
commit2278c5ac9d39699bac44250b9c532de0c02cb16a (patch)
tree3c205ade052aad867a7a4ae06ddfe4f6d9e0878f /arch
parentcc0be0fb3fd4bd2c363ef1b5c968cd6f2ce478cf (diff)
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')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c9
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)
318 if (str == NULL) 318 if (str == NULL)
319 goto random; 319 goto random;
320 320
321 for (i = 0;i < 6; i++) { 321 for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
322 addr[i] = simple_strtoul(str, &end, 16); 322 addr[i] = simple_strtoul(str, &end, 16);
323 if ((end == str) || 323 if ((end == str) ||
324 ((*end != ':') && (*end != ',') && (*end != '\0'))) { 324 ((*end != ':') && (*end != ',') && (*end != '\0'))) {
@@ -343,14 +343,13 @@ static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr, char *name)
343 } 343 }
344 if (!is_local_ether_addr(addr)) { 344 if (!is_local_ether_addr(addr)) {
345 printk(KERN_WARNING 345 printk(KERN_WARNING
346 "Warning: attempt to assign a globally valid ethernet " 346 "Warning: Assigning a globally valid ethernet "
347 "address to a device\n"); 347 "address to a device\n");
348 printk(KERN_WARNING "You should better enable the 2nd " 348 printk(KERN_WARNING "You should set the 2nd rightmost bit in "
349 "rightmost bit in the first byte of the MAC,\n"); 349 "the first byte of the MAC,\n");
350 printk(KERN_WARNING "i.e. %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n", 350 printk(KERN_WARNING "i.e. %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n",
351 addr[0] | 0x02, addr[1], addr[2], addr[3], addr[4], 351 addr[0] | 0x02, addr[1], addr[2], addr[3], addr[4],
352 addr[5]); 352 addr[5]);
353 goto random;
354 } 353 }
355 return; 354 return;
356 355