uml: improve checking and diagnostics of ethernet MACs
authorPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Sun, 6 May 2007 21:51:13 +0000 (14:51 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 May 2007 19:13:02 +0000 (12:13 -0700)
commite024715f5f6250179a31716a898800a48cf23b39
tree2cba9702be41ff8263d1fb50825f6f17c9f40171
parent85ee2ce8ae7d6716beffc84451dd65cd217dbf7a
uml: improve checking and diagnostics of ethernet MACs

Improve checking and diagnostics for broadcast and multicast Ethernet MAC
addresses, and distinguish between those cases in output; also make sure the
device is assigned a MAC address valid only locally to avoid collisions.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
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>
arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
include/linux/etherdevice.h