qeth: meaningful return code for set_mac_address
authorUrsula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 02:06:28 +0000 (02:06 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:52:25 +0000 (22:52 -0800)
Setting an invalid mac-address for a qeth layer2 device returns
with a strange error code:
# ip link set hsi1 address 00:00:00:00:00:01
   RTNETLINK answers: Unknown error 18446744073709486085
Problem is caused by wrong usage of the return_code field within
structure qeth_ipa_cmd.
With this patch the ip command above returns
   SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument

Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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