From 2278c5ac9d39699bac44250b9c532de0c02cb16a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:31:25 -0800
Subject: uml: use of a public MAC is a warning, not an error

Downgrade one of the MAC validity checks.  If it's one that could be possibly
assigned to a physical NIC, then nothing will break.  So, emit a warning in
this case, but keep the requested MAC.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
index ca71577..1e8f41a 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr, char *name)
 	if (str == NULL)
 		goto random;
 
-	for (i = 0;i < 6; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
 		addr[i] = simple_strtoul(str, &end, 16);
 		if ((end == str) ||
 		   ((*end != ':') && (*end != ',') && (*end != '\0'))) {
@@ -343,14 +343,13 @@ static void setup_etheraddr(char *str, unsigned char *addr, char *name)
 	}
 	if (!is_local_ether_addr(addr)) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING
-		       "Warning: attempt to assign a globally valid ethernet "
+		       "Warning: Assigning a globally valid ethernet "
 		       "address to a device\n");
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "You should better enable the 2nd "
-		       "rightmost bit in the first byte of the MAC,\n");
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "You should set the 2nd rightmost bit in "
+		       "the first byte of the MAC,\n");
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "i.e. %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n",
 		       addr[0] | 0x02, addr[1], addr[2], addr[3], addr[4],
 		       addr[5]);
-		goto random;
 	}
 	return;
 
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