Re: [Lf_driver_backport] [PATCH] compat: backport ether_addr_equal

[Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>]

On 05/16/2012 10:17 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Ozan Çağlayan <ozancag@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This backports:
>>
>>    commit a599b0f54d233d0f63d6be9a2ff0049d24751669
>>    Author: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
>>    Date:   Tue May 8 18:56:45 2012 +0000
>>
>>        etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal
>>
>>        Add a boolean function to check if 2 ethernet addresses
>>        are the same.
>>
>>        This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr
>>        returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the
>>        compare_ether_addr function for sorting ala memcmp.
>>
>>        Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
>>        Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>>
>> [root@ozzyfedora compat]# bin/ckmake
>> Trying kernel                      3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64  [OK]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozancag@gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks!! BTW I see this though:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> 
> And then all I see is this when I save the e-mail to a txt file, given
> that the encoding is base64. This is odd given that I see you sent
> this with X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.1 -- so not sure how this
> ended up going out like this.

That's strange, when I save this mail I got over the mailing list with
Thunderbird it is not based64 encoded and when looking into the source
code with my mail program it is normal text mail.

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Subject: [PATCH] compat: backport ether_addr_equal
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Hauke