From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: joe@perches.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal_64bits
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 23:35:41 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120510.233541.852199665039697310.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7535e70ceb63f7da56f73cb37d4b269cd7798583.1336618708.git.joe@perches.com>
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 20:04:03 -0700
> Add an optimized boolean function to check if
> 2 ethernet addresses are the same.
>
> This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr_64bits
> returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the
> compare_ether_addr_64bits function for sorting ala memcmp.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-11 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-10 3:04 [PATCH 0/3] net,drivers/net: Use ether_addr_equal and ether_addr_equal_64bits Joe Perches
2012-05-10 3:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal_64bits Joe Perches
2012-05-11 3:35 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-05-10 3:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] net,drivers/net: Convert compare_ether_addr_64bits to ether_addr_equal_64bits Joe Perches
2012-05-11 3:35 ` David Miller
2012-05-11 22:21 ` [PATCH net-next] etherdevice: Remove now unused compare_ether_addr_64bits Joe Perches
2012-05-13 3:35 ` David Miller
2012-05-10 3:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] drivers/net: Convert compare_ether_addr to ether_addr_equal Joe Perches
[not found] ` <7c9881a67c52c2f218480b6742155b6d6928122d.1336618708.git.joe-6d6DIl74uiNBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-10 14:32 ` Jussi Kivilinna
2012-05-10 16:11 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-10 16:33 ` David Miller
2012-05-31 12:01 ` Jussi Kivilinna
[not found] ` <20120531150124.119853l3a0cbvj40-tzMWlZeEOor1KXRcyAk9cg@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-31 18:49 ` Joe Perches
2012-05-10 16:30 ` David Miller
2012-05-10 20:15 ` Jussi Kivilinna
2012-05-11 3:35 ` David Miller
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