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Diffstat (limited to 'net/ethernet/eth.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ethernet/eth.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ethernet/eth.c b/net/ethernet/eth.c index 36e58800a9e3..4efad533e5f6 100644 --- a/net/ethernet/eth.c +++ b/net/ethernet/eth.c @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(eth_header_parse); * @neigh: source neighbour * @hh: destination cache entry * @type: Ethernet type field + * * Create an Ethernet header template from the neighbour. */ int eth_header_cache(const struct neighbour *neigh, struct hh_cache *hh, __be16 type) @@ -274,6 +275,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(eth_header_cache_update); * eth_mac_addr - set new Ethernet hardware address * @dev: network device * @p: socket address + * * Change hardware address of device. * * This doesn't change hardware matching, so needs to be overridden @@ -283,7 +285,7 @@ int eth_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p) { struct sockaddr *addr = p; - if (netif_running(dev)) + if (!(dev->priv_flags & IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE) && netif_running(dev)) return -EBUSY; if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data)) return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; @@ -331,6 +333,7 @@ const struct header_ops eth_header_ops ____cacheline_aligned = { /** * ether_setup - setup Ethernet network device * @dev: network device + * * Fill in the fields of the device structure with Ethernet-generic values. */ void ether_setup(struct net_device *dev) |