include/linux/etherdevice.h

/*
 * INET		An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
 *		operating system.  NET  is implemented using the  BSD Socket
 *		interface as the means of communication with the user level.
 *
 *		Definitions for the Ethernet handlers.
 *
 * Version:	@(#)eth.h	1.0.4	05/13/93
 *
 * Authors:	Ross Biro
 *		Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
 *
 *		Relocated to include/linux where it belongs by Alan Cox 
 *							<gw4pts@gw4pts.ampr.org>
 *
 *		This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *		modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 *		as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
 *		2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *	WARNING: This move may well be temporary. This file will get merged with others RSN.
 *
 */
#ifndef _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H
#define _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H

#include <linux/if_ether.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/random.h>

#ifdef __KERNEL__
extern int		eth_header(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
				   unsigned short type, void *daddr,
				   void *saddr, unsigned len);
extern int		eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern unsigned short	eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
extern void		eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh, struct net_device *dev,
						unsigned char * haddr);
extern int		eth_header_cache(struct neighbour *neigh,
					 struct hh_cache *hh);

extern struct net_device *alloc_etherdev(int sizeof_priv);
static inline void eth_copy_and_sum (struct sk_buff *dest, 
				     const unsigned char *src, 
				     int len, int base)
{
	memcpy (dest->data, src, len);
}

/**
 * is_zero_ether_addr - Determine if give Ethernet address is all
 * zeros.
 */
static inline int is_zero_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
{
	return !(addr[0] | addr[1] | addr[2] | addr[3] | addr[4] | addr[5]);
}

/**
 * is_multicast_ether_addr - Determine if the given Ethernet address is a
 * multicast address.
 *
 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
 *
 * Return true if the address is a multicast address.
 */
static inline int is_multicast_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
{
	return ((addr[0] != 0xff) && (0x01 & addr[0]));
}

/**
 * is_valid_ether_addr - Determine if the given Ethernet address is valid
 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
 *
 * Check that the Ethernet address (MAC) is not 00:00:00:00:00:00, is not
 * a multicast address, and is not FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
 *
 * Return true if the address is valid.
 */
static inline int is_valid_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
{
	/* FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is a multicast address so we don't need to
	 * explicitly check for it here. */
	return !is_multicast_ether_addr(addr) && !is_zero_ether_addr(addr);
}

/**
 * random_ether_addr - Generate software assigned random Ethernet address
 * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
 *
 * Generate a random Ethernet address (MAC) that is not multicast
 * and has the local assigned bit set.
 */
static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr)
{
	get_random_bytes (addr, ETH_ALEN);
	addr [0] &= 0xfe;	/* clear multicast bit */
	addr [0] |= 0x02;	/* set local assignment bit (IEEE802) */
}
#endif	/* __KERNEL__ */

#endif	/* _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H */