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| author | Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com> | 2018-12-13 14:54:30 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2018-12-14 05:41:38 +0300 |
| commit | 3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030 (patch) | |
| tree | 39d632745b9834d8297856b8900b793ec43c45d7 /include/linux/netdevice.h | |
| parent | 95302c394c3de19bdf24fff5e44a2bf935eadf74 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030.tar.xz | |
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 'include/linux/netdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 36ca5f50f822..d89875ec21ac 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -3628,7 +3628,8 @@ int dev_set_mtu_ext(struct net_device *dev, int mtu, int dev_set_mtu(struct net_device *, int); int dev_change_tx_queue_len(struct net_device *, unsigned long); void dev_set_group(struct net_device *, int); -int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *, struct sockaddr *); +int dev_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, struct sockaddr *sa, + struct netlink_ext_ack *extack); int dev_change_carrier(struct net_device *, bool new_carrier); int dev_get_phys_port_id(struct net_device *dev, struct netdev_phys_item_id *ppid); |