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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> | 2005-12-21 18:51:49 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2006-01-03 13:11:00 -0800 |
| commit | 4505a3ef720845b5db3ddb440de13cd4800fd508 (patch) | |
| tree | 2de3d2fb20d160dc1a04bdb0295882561e4244bc /net/bridge/br_stp_if.c | |
| parent | fbe9cc4a87030d5cad5f944ffaef6af7efd119e4 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-4505a3ef720845b5db3ddb440de13cd4800fd508.tar.gz lwn-4505a3ef720845b5db3ddb440de13cd4800fd508.zip | |
[BRIDGE]: allow setting hardware address of bridge pseudo-dev
Some people are using bridging to hide multiple machines from an ISP
that restricts by MAC address. So in that case allow the bridge mac
address to be set to any of the existing interfaces. I don't want to
allow any arbitrary value and confuse STP.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_stp_if.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/bridge/br_stp_if.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c index ac09b6a23523..2d2e969ae25d 100644 --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c @@ -120,8 +120,7 @@ void br_stp_disable_port(struct net_bridge_port *p) } /* called under bridge lock */ -static void br_stp_change_bridge_id(struct net_bridge *br, - const unsigned char *addr) +void br_stp_change_bridge_id(struct net_bridge *br, const unsigned char *addr) { unsigned char oldaddr[6]; struct net_bridge_port *p; |