This has confused developers adding hardware support, e.g.: http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-April/016350.html
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> --- 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 daf46ad..6daae5e 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'. -- 1.7.2.5 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
