From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Lamparter Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] carl9170: use ether_addr_equal_64bits Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:10:58 +0100 Message-ID: <10609239.5b8Q6kF6b9@debian64> References: <1388427307-8691-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> <1388427307-8691-12-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Julia Lawall Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1388427307-8691-12-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Monday, December 30, 2013 07:15:07 PM Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > Ether_addr_equal_64bits is more efficient than ether_addr_equal, and can be > used when each argument is an array within a structure that contains at > least two bytes of data beyond the array. > > The structures involved are: > ieee80211_hdr defined in include/linux/ieee80211.h, > ieee80211_bar defined in include/linux/ieee80211.h and > ath_common defined in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.h > > This was done using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/). > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Acked-by: Christian Lamparter