[PATCH] etherdevice: introduce broadcast_ether_addr
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2012-07-03 10:16:30
Also in:
netdev
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Johannes Berg <redacted> A lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy from a static array that contains the all-ones broadcast address. Introduce broadcast_ether_addr() to fill an address with all ones, making the code clearer and allowing us to get rid of the various constant arrays. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <redacted> --- include/linux/etherdevice.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 3d406e0..6da05bb 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h@@ -138,6 +138,17 @@ static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr) } /** + * broadcast_ether_addr - Assign broadcast address + * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address + * + * Assign the broadcast address to the given address array. + */ +static inline void broadcast_ether_addr(u8 *addr) +{ + memset(addr, 0xff, ETH_ALEN); +} + +/** * eth_hw_addr_random - Generate software assigned random Ethernet and * set device flag * @dev: pointer to net_device structure
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