From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932983Ab2EKDfr (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 23:35:47 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:56713 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932408Ab2EKDfp (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 23:35:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 23:35:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120510.233541.852199665039697310.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 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <7535e70ceb63f7da56f73cb37d4b269cd7798583.1336618708.git.joe@perches.com> References: <7535e70ceb63f7da56f73cb37d4b269cd7798583.1336618708.git.joe@perches.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.0.95 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Thu, 10 May 2012 20:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Joe Perches 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 Applied.