util-lib: add ether_addr_from_string()

This isn't quite symmetrical to in_addr_from_string() because it also returns
an offset indicating how much of the string was consumed by the matched
pattern.  This offset reporting is needed for either of the following use
cases:

 * verifying the lack of trailing garbage after such an address
 * parsing subsequent data from the same string

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/ether-addr-util.h b/src/basic/ether-addr-util.h
index 074363793e..74e125a95f 100644
--- a/src/basic/ether-addr-util.h
+++ b/src/basic/ether-addr-util.h
@@ -35,3 +35,5 @@ bool ether_addr_equal(const struct ether_addr *a, const struct ether_addr *b);
 static inline bool ether_addr_is_null(const struct ether_addr *addr) {
         return ether_addr_equal(addr, &ETHER_ADDR_NULL);
 }
+
+int ether_addr_from_string(const char *s, struct ether_addr *ret, size_t *offset);