uml: use of a public MAC is a warning, not an error
Downgrade one of the MAC validity checks. If it's one that could be possibly
assigned to a physical NIC, then nothing will break. So, emit a warning in
this case, but keep the requested MAC.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
index ca71577..1e8f41a 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
if (str == NULL)
goto random;
- for (i = 0;i < 6; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
addr[i] = simple_strtoul(str, &end, 16);
if ((end == str) ||
((*end != ':') && (*end != ',') && (*end != '\0'))) {
@@ -343,14 +343,13 @@
}
if (!is_local_ether_addr(addr)) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
- "Warning: attempt to assign a globally valid ethernet "
+ "Warning: Assigning a globally valid ethernet "
"address to a device\n");
- printk(KERN_WARNING "You should better enable the 2nd "
- "rightmost bit in the first byte of the MAC,\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "You should set the 2nd rightmost bit in "
+ "the first byte of the MAC,\n");
printk(KERN_WARNING "i.e. %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n",
addr[0] | 0x02, addr[1], addr[2], addr[3], addr[4],
addr[5]);
- goto random;
}
return;