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| author | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2012-04-30 11:23:38 -0700 |
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| committer | Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com> | 2012-05-01 14:29:35 -0700 |
| commit | 33f1ff8464641c392fb713fe4e45be0c18a6b047 (patch) | |
| tree | 779b671e9fa76ddb675d139cbca3709a07e3a3cf /lib/netdev-provider.h | |
| parent | 1ea9e6097969ecca167827b68a6492127992c82b (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-33f1ff8464641c392fb713fe4e45be0c18a6b047.tar.gz | |
netdev: Document use for get_etheraddr member of struct netdev_class.
This has confused developers adding hardware support, e.g.:
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-April/016350.html
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/netdev-provider.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/netdev-provider.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/netdev-provider.h b/lib/netdev-provider.h index daf46adee..6daae5e6c 100644 --- a/lib/netdev-provider.h +++ b/lib/netdev-provider.h @@ -231,7 +231,10 @@ struct netdev_class { /* Sets 'netdev''s Ethernet address to 'mac' */ int (*set_etheraddr)(struct netdev *netdev, const uint8_t mac[6]); - /* Retrieves 'netdev''s Ethernet address into 'mac'. */ + /* Retrieves 'netdev''s Ethernet address into 'mac'. + * + * This address will be advertised as 'netdev''s MAC address through the + * OpenFlow protocol, among other uses. */ int (*get_etheraddr)(const struct netdev *netdev, uint8_t mac[6]); /* Retrieves 'netdev''s MTU into '*mtup'. |