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authorPetr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>2018-12-13 12:54:30 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-12-14 03:41:38 +0100
commit3a37a9636cf3a1af2621a33f7eef8a2a3da81030 (patch)
tree39d632745b9834d8297856b8900b793ec43c45d7 /include
parentMerge tag 'mlx5e-updates-2018-12-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke... (diff)
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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')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h3
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);