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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2012-07-12 19:33:05 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-07-16 22:38:27 -0700
commit0a4dd594982a321699000218715e28664ec49169 (patch)
tree81d589ae2e7cc9f73c9608ff0fc14c6582c0c825 /include/linux/etherdevice.h
parent07689b0a5c26176c528d7864b93188045439f49b (diff)
etherdevice: Rename random_ether_addr to eth_random_addr
Add some API symmetry to eth_broadcast_addr and add a #define to the old name for backward compatibility. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/etherdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/etherdevice.h14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 98a27cccedfd..d426336d92d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -124,19 +124,21 @@ static inline bool is_valid_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
}
/**
- * random_ether_addr - Generate software assigned random Ethernet address
+ * eth_random_addr - Generate software assigned random Ethernet address
* @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
*
* Generate a random Ethernet address (MAC) that is not multicast
* and has the local assigned bit set.
*/
-static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr)
+static inline void eth_random_addr(u8 *addr)
{
- get_random_bytes (addr, ETH_ALEN);
- addr [0] &= 0xfe; /* clear multicast bit */
- addr [0] |= 0x02; /* set local assignment bit (IEEE802) */
+ get_random_bytes(addr, ETH_ALEN);
+ addr[0] &= 0xfe; /* clear multicast bit */
+ addr[0] |= 0x02; /* set local assignment bit (IEEE802) */
}
+#define random_ether_addr(addr) eth_random_addr(addr)
+
/**
* eth_broadcast_addr - Assign broadcast address
* @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
@@ -160,7 +162,7 @@ static inline void eth_broadcast_addr(u8 *addr)
static inline void eth_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev)
{
dev->addr_assign_type |= NET_ADDR_RANDOM;
- random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr);
+ eth_random_addr(dev->dev_addr);
}
/**