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* [PATCH /6] UML - pcap devices should get MACs from command line
@ 2007-05-01 18:21 Jeff Dike
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From: Jeff Dike @ 2007-05-01 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: LKML, uml-devel, Antoine Martin

Allow a pcap device to be assigned a MAC on the command line.  They
don't really need one, but it is handy to be able to do when your
distro assigns a new ethernet device whenever it sees a new MAC.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
--
 arch/um/drivers/pcap_kern.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/drivers/pcap_kern.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-mm.orig/arch/um/drivers/pcap_kern.c	2007-04-27 16:15:41.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm/arch/um/drivers/pcap_kern.c	2007-04-27 16:15:57.000000000 -0400
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ int pcap_setup(char *str, char **mac_out
 		  .filter 	= NULL });
 
 	remain = split_if_spec(str, &host_if, &init->filter,
-			       &options[0], &options[1], NULL);
+			       &options[0], &options[1], mac_out, NULL);
 	if(remain != NULL){
 		printk(KERN_ERR "pcap_setup - Extra garbage on "
 		       "specification : '%s'\n", remain);

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