From 449ff11b78db6d5ec3388c57a2f1f871cf0f26d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Winship Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:13:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] libnm-core: clarify a comment about InfiniBand hardware address matching --- libnm-core/nm-utils.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libnm-core/nm-utils.c b/libnm-core/nm-utils.c index aeb2063a3..4304b5b68 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