From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: netfilter: spanning tree: Add masked_ether_addr_equal and neatening Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:00:00 -0700 Message-ID: <1466708400.1847.15.camel@perches.com> References: <20160623173659.GA3474@salvia> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Patrick McHardy , Jozsef Kadlecsik , Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160623173659.GA3474@salvia> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 19:36 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > >=20 > > There is code duplication of a masked ethernet address comparison h= ere > > so make it a separate function instead. > >=20 > > Miscellanea: > >=20 > > o Neaten alignment of FWINV macro uses to make it clearer for the r= eader > Applied, thanks. >=20 > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches > > --- > >=20 > > This masked_ether_addr_equal function could go into etherdevice.h, > > but I don't see another use like it in kernel code.=A0=A0Is there o= ne? > This is specific of iptables, not even nftables would use this. So I > would keep this in the iptables tree. Did you see the other patch that adds a generic ether_addr_equal_masked() and uses it in a few more files?