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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next 13/14] wireless: Use eth_<foo>_addr instead of memset
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> > Other than that, I guess I'll apply this, but I really wish there was a
> > way to distinguish more easily which of these require alignment and
> > which don't.
>
> My guess is the eth_zero_addr and eth_broadcast functions
> are always taking aligned(2) arguments, just like all the
> is_<foo>_ether_addr functions.

Err, are you serious??? That *clearly* isn't true, and if it was then
this patch wouldn't be safe at all.

> > eth_zero_addr() doesn,t but is_zero_ether_addr() does. So does
> > ether_addr_copy(). Frankly, it's getting a bit confusing, so I can't
> > really fault anyone for using memset()/memcpy().
>
> I suspect more than anything else all these are historic.

I'd expect a mix here, certainly. Not all of them are really old though.

johannes



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