From 63b5c60743791d6e92682fe708515a35004a18b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 21:31:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] util: Add util_string_to_address

---
 src/util.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/util.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/util.c b/src/util.c
index e8c7c376..3ab4c4f2 100644
--- a/src/util.c
+++ b/src/util.c
@@ -97,6 +97,40 @@ const char *util_address_to_string(const uint8_t *addr)
 	return str;
 }
 
+bool util_string_to_address(const char *str, uint8_t *addr)
+{
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	if (!str)
+		return false;
+
+	if (strlen(str) != 17)
+		return false;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < 15; i += 3) {
+		if (!l_ascii_isxdigit(str[i]))
+			return false;
+
+		if (!l_ascii_isxdigit(str[i + 1]))
+			return false;
+
+		if (str[i + 2] != ':')
+			return false;
+        }
+
+	if (!l_ascii_isxdigit(str[i]))
+		return false;
+
+	if (!l_ascii_isxdigit(str[i + 1]))
+		return false;
+
+	sscanf(str, "%2hhx:%2hhx:%2hhx:%2hhx:%2hhx:%2hhx",
+			&addr[0], &addr[1], &addr[2],
+			&addr[3], &addr[4], &addr[5]);
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 bool _msg_append_attr(struct l_genl_msg *msg,
 			uint16_t type, const char *type_str,
 			uint16_t len, const void *value)
diff --git a/src/util.h b/src/util.h
index 780e228e..c8d418b0 100644
--- a/src/util.h
+++ b/src/util.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 const char *util_ssid_to_utf8(size_t len, const uint8_t *ssid);
 bool util_ssid_is_utf8(size_t len, const uint8_t *ssid);
 const char *util_address_to_string(const uint8_t *addr);
+bool util_string_to_address(const char *str, uint8_t *addr);
 
 static inline uint8_t util_bit_field(const uint8_t oct, int start, int num)
 {