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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/if_ether.h b/include/linux/if_ether.h
index be69043d2896..0f1325d98295 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