Re: [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] 6lowpan: add uncompress header size function

From: David Laight <redacted>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:10:05 +0000

From: Alexander Aring

quoted

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
---
 net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h
index 2b835db..b6ae0bc 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.h

@@ -306,6 +306,122 @@ static inline void lowpan_push_hc_data(u8 **hc_ptr, const void *data,
 	*hc_ptr += len;
 }

+static inline u8 lowpan_addr_mode_size(const u8 addr_mode)
+{
+	switch (addr_mode) {
+	case LOWPAN_IPHC_ADDR_00:
+		return 16;
+	case LOWPAN_IPHC_ADDR_01:
+		return 8;
+	case LOWPAN_IPHC_ADDR_02:
+		return 2;
+	default:
+		return 0;
+	}
+}

The compiler will generate much better code if you index an array instead
of using a switch statement.

And please mark the array const :-)