[PATCH v1 01/14] net: add helper eth_addr_add()
From: Michael Walle <hidden>
Date: 2022-08-25 21:45:05
Also in:
linux-arm-kernel, linux-devicetree, lkml
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
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> --- include/linux/etherdevice.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
index 92b10e67d5f8..d1be5ca4d5cb 100644
--- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h@@ -485,6 +485,20 @@ 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. + * + * @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
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