Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Joe Perches <> | Subject | [PATCH 01/13] etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal | Date | Tue, 8 May 2012 21:56:45 -0700 |
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Add a boolean function to check if 2 ethernet addresses are the same.
This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the compare_ether_addr function for sorting ala memcmp.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> --- include/linux/etherdevice.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index c47631f..f330114 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -171,6 +171,18 @@ static inline unsigned compare_ether_addr(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2) return ((a[0] ^ b[0]) | (a[1] ^ b[1]) | (a[2] ^ b[2])) != 0; } +/** + * ether_addr_equal - Compare two Ethernet addresses + * @addr1: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address + * @addr2: Pointer other six-byte array containing the Ethernet address + * + * Compare two ethernet addresses, returns true if equal + */ +static inline bool ether_addr_equal(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2) +{ + return !compare_ether_addr(addr1, addr2); +} + static inline unsigned long zap_last_2bytes(unsigned long value) { #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN -- 1.7.8.111.gad25c.dirty
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