Thread (41 messages) 41 messages, 6 authors, 2022-09-23

Re: [PATCH v2 01/20] net: add helper eth_addr_add()

From: Randy Dunlap <hidden>
Date: 2022-09-01 23:23:08
Also in: linux-devicetree, lkml


On 9/1/22 15:18, Michael Walle wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Add a helper to add an offset to a ethernet address. This comes in handy
if you have a base ethernet address for multiple interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
changes since v1:
 - none

 include/linux/etherdevice.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index a541f0c4f146..f144cadbe99d 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
@@ -507,6 +507,20 @@ static inline void eth_addr_inc(u8 *addr)
 	u64_to_ether_addr(u, addr);
 }
 
+/**
+ * eth_addr_add() - Add (or subtract) and offset to/from the given MAC address.
                                         an offset
?
+ *
+ * @offset: Offset to add.
+ * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing Ethernet address to increment.
+ */
+static inline void eth_addr_add(u8 *addr, long offset)
+{
+	u64 u = ether_addr_to_u64(addr);
+
+	u += offset;
+	u64_to_ether_addr(u, addr);
+}
+
 /**
  * is_etherdev_addr - Tell if given Ethernet address belongs to the device.
  * @dev: Pointer to a device structure
-- 
~Randy

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