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| author | Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> | 2018-12-13 11:54:30 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-12-13 18:41:38 -0800 |
| commit | 3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030 (patch) | |
| tree | 39d632745b9834d8297856b8900b793ec43c45d7 /drivers/net/tun.c | |
| parent | 95302c394c3de19bdf24fff5e44a2bf935eadf74 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030.tar.gz lwn-3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030.zip | |
net: dev: Add extack argument to dev_set_mac_address()
A follow-up patch will add a notifier type NETDEV_PRE_CHANGEADDR, which
allows vetoing of MAC address changes. One prominent path to that
notification is through dev_set_mac_address(). Therefore give this
function an extack argument, so that it can be packed together with the
notification. Thus a textual reason for rejection (or a warning) can be
communicated back to the user.
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/tun.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/tun.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index ea528248d7d0..72577aa35b06 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -3202,7 +3202,7 @@ static long __tun_chr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, tun_debug(KERN_DEBUG, tun, "set hw address: %pM\n", ifr.ifr_hwaddr.sa_data); - ret = dev_set_mac_address(tun->dev, &ifr.ifr_hwaddr); + ret = dev_set_mac_address(tun->dev, &ifr.ifr_hwaddr, NULL); break; case TUNGETSNDBUF: |