Re: [PATCH] etherdevice: introduce broadcast_ether_addr

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 12:16 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> A lot of code has either the memset or an
> inefficient copy from a static array that
> contains the all-ones broadcast address.
> Introduce broadcast_ether_addr() to fill
> an address with all ones, making the code
> clearer and allowing us to get rid of the
> various constant arrays.
[]
> diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
[]
> +static inline void broadcast_ether_addr(u8 *addr)
> +{
> +	memset(addr, 0xff, ETH_ALEN);
> +}

I think this sort of patch should come as the first
patch in a series with some example conversions.

It might be too easy to confuse is_broadcast_ether_addr
with this function name too.  Maybe set_broadcast_ether_addr
might be better.

I really don't see an issue with using memset though.
Everyone already knows what that does.