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author | Michael Brown | 2009-08-11 21:19:53 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Brown | 2009-08-12 01:19:14 +0200 |
commit | 37a0aab4ff2c86f4d109d4cd479535be97d07a94 (patch) | |
tree | 5a2f06a22cf2c647b36d254fc1699072c3c88392 /src/net/netdevice.c | |
parent | [doc] Expand scope of doxygen-generated documentation (diff) | |
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[netdevice] Separate out the concept of hardware and link-layer addresses
The hardware address is an intrinsic property of the hardware, while
the link-layer address can be changed at runtime. This separation is
exposed via APIs such as PXE and EFI, but is currently elided by gPXE.
Expose the hardware and link-layer addresses as separate properties
within a net device. Drivers should now fill in hw_addr, which will
be used to initialise ll_addr at the time of calling
register_netdev().
Diffstat (limited to 'src/net/netdevice.c')
-rw-r--r-- | src/net/netdevice.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/net/netdevice.c b/src/net/netdevice.c index f019eeb2..f43ca8a4 100644 --- a/src/net/netdevice.c +++ b/src/net/netdevice.c @@ -357,6 +357,10 @@ int register_netdev ( struct net_device *netdev ) { snprintf ( netdev->name, sizeof ( netdev->name ), "net%d", ifindex++ ); + /* Set initial link-layer address */ + memcpy ( netdev->ll_addr, netdev->hw_addr, + netdev->ll_protocol->ll_addr_len ); + /* Register per-netdev configuration settings */ if ( ( rc = register_settings ( netdev_settings ( netdev ), NULL ) ) != 0 ) { @@ -370,7 +374,7 @@ int register_netdev ( struct net_device *netdev ) { list_add_tail ( &netdev->list, &net_devices ); DBGC ( netdev, "NETDEV %p registered as %s (phys %s hwaddr %s)\n", netdev, netdev->name, netdev->dev->name, - netdev_hwaddr ( netdev ) ); + netdev_addr ( netdev ) ); return 0; } |