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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2013-12-06 14:21:01 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-12-09 20:58:10 -0500 |
| commit | 73eaef87e98a96fe8b8a586f916b2721bf512efa (patch) | |
| tree | b60f5b2b508d0d643c34fde1d65d2c546b37851b /include | |
| parent | 4e5887934627884ae8445f524a48125f974a78c3 (diff) | |
etherdevice: Add ether_addr_equal_unaligned
Add a generic routine to test if possibly unaligned
to u16 Ethernet addresses are equal.
If CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is set,
this uses the slightly faster generic routine
ether_addr_equal, otherwise this uses memcmp.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/etherdevice.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index 3526e819d7ae..2f0e3d0818bc 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -266,6 +266,24 @@ static inline bool ether_addr_equal_64bits(const u8 addr1[6+2], } /** + * ether_addr_equal_unaligned - Compare two not u16 aligned 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 + * + * Please note: Use only when any Ethernet address may not be u16 aligned. + */ +static inline bool ether_addr_equal_unaligned(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2) +{ +#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS) + return ether_addr_equal(addr1, addr2); +#else + return memcmp(addr1, addr2, ETH_ALEN) == 0; +#endif +} + +/** * is_etherdev_addr - Tell if given Ethernet address belongs to the device. * @dev: Pointer to a device structure * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address |