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| author | Dan Winship <danw@gnome.org> | 2014-08-20 16:13:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Dan Winship <danw@gnome.org> | 2014-08-20 16:14:15 -0400 |
| commit | 449ff11b78db6d5ec3388c57a2f1f871cf0f26d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 27163c72ac700c2f3f0f4b8bada40d9567f4d437 | |
| parent | 32a53f786d269ea2cc7f1998fd5e6b07a144db70 (diff) | |
libnm-core: clarify a comment about InfiniBand hardware address matching
| -rw-r--r-- | libnm-core/nm-utils.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libnm-core/nm-utils.c b/libnm-core/nm-utils.c index aeb2063a38..4304b5b683 100644 --- a/libnm-core/nm-utils.c +++ b/libnm-core/nm-utils.c @@ -2133,8 +2133,9 @@ nm_utils_hwaddr_valid (const char *asc, gssize length) * * 3. If @hwaddr1 and @hwaddr2 are InfiniBand hardware addresses (that is, if * they are %INFINIBAND_ALEN bytes long in binary form) then only the last - * 8 bytes are compared, since those are the only bytes that matter for - * InfiniBand hardware address matching. + * 8 bytes are compared, since those are the only bytes that actually + * identify the hardware. (The other 12 bytes will change depending on the + * configuration of the InfiniBand fabric that the device is connected to.) * * If a passed-in ASCII hardware address cannot be parsed, or would parse to an * address larger than %NM_UTILS_HWADDR_LEN_MAX, then it will silently fail to |