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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com,
	auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, ajax@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000, e1000e valid-addr fixes
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:31:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472A2989.2060603@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071101111157.7f3e4f58@freepuppy.rosehill>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> How about:
> 
> static int eth_validate_addr(const struct net_device *dev)
> {
> 	return is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr) ? 0 : -EINVAL;
> }

hmmm -- its a slow path, so I don't see the value of marking the 
argument 'const' -- right now this implementation merely reads the 
dev->dev_addr[], but that need not always be the case.

And I don't see the value of squashing everything onto one line, IMO the 
current version is more readable.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <11931515302013-git-send-email-ajax@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <471E1ECD.80002@intel.com>
     [not found]   ` <1193156487.26974.39.camel@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found]     ` <471E2AD0.1000500@intel.com>
2007-10-23 20:40       ` [PATCH] Add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module option to e1000 Jeff Garzik
2007-10-23 21:01         ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 21:51           ` David Miller
2007-10-23 21:20         ` Dave Jones
2007-10-23 21:38           ` Alan Cox
2007-10-23 21:53           ` David Miller
2007-10-23 23:19             ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-24  0:55             ` [PATCH] e1000, e1000e valid-addr fixes Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24  1:03               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24  1:07                 ` David Miller
2007-10-24  2:20                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24  2:23                     ` David Miller
2007-11-01 18:04                       ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-01 18:47                         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-01 18:11                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-01 19:31                       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-24  1:15               ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-23 23:03           ` [PATCH] Add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module option to e1000 Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 23:53             ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-24  5:38             ` Dave Jones
2007-10-23 21:48         ` David Miller

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