From 4940fc889e1e63667a15243028ddcd84d471cd8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 23:00:07 +0000 Subject: net: add mac_pton() for parsing MAC address mac_pton() parses MAC address in form XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and only in that form. mac_pton() doesn't dirty result until it's sure string representation is valid. mac_pton() doesn't care about characters _after_ last octet, it's up to caller to deal with it. mac_pton() diverges from 0/-E return value convention. Target usage: if (!mac_pton(str, whatever->mac)) return -EINVAL; /* ->mac being u8 [ETH_ALEN] is filled at this point. */ /* optionally check str[3 * ETH_ALEN - 1] for termination */ Use mac_pton() in pktgen and netconsole for start. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/if_ether.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/if_ether.h') diff --git a/include/linux/if_ether.h b/include/linux/if_ether.h index be69043d2896..0f1325d98295 100644 --- a/include/linux/if_ether.h +++ b/include/linux/if_ether.h @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ int eth_header_parse(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned char *haddr); extern struct ctl_table ether_table[]; #endif +int mac_pton(const char *s, u8 *mac); extern ssize_t sysfs_format_mac(char *buf, const unsigned char *addr, int len); #endif -- cgit v1.2.3