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author | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2012-05-21 21:39:42 +0200 |
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committer | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2012-05-21 21:39:42 +0200 |
commit | 0ad8c6a22d03a1598f7cc6585c65354dadca62ad (patch) | |
tree | 1507deef3d55d5f3c71b2f76924fe1f6c6211905 /include/linux/etherdevice.h | |
parent | 8527f8e2934683e53405fbe876a4e6f4a0c46eb8 (diff) | |
parent | 76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc (diff) |
Merge tag 'v3.4' with SCSI updates, needed for subsequent firewire-sbp2 changes
Linux 3.4
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/etherdevice.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/etherdevice.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index 8a1835855fa..fe5136d8145 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -159,7 +159,8 @@ static inline void eth_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev) * @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 0 if equal + * Compare two ethernet addresses, returns 0 if equal, non-zero otherwise. + * Unlike memcmp(), it doesn't return a value suitable for sorting. */ static inline unsigned compare_ether_addr(const u8 *addr1, const u8 *addr2) { @@ -184,10 +185,10 @@ static inline unsigned long zap_last_2bytes(unsigned long value) * @addr1: Pointer to an array of 8 bytes * @addr2: Pointer to an other array of 8 bytes * - * Compare two ethernet addresses, returns 0 if equal. - * Same result than "memcmp(addr1, addr2, ETH_ALEN)" but without conditional - * branches, and possibly long word memory accesses on CPU allowing cheap - * unaligned memory reads. + * Compare two ethernet addresses, returns 0 if equal, non-zero otherwise. + * Unlike memcmp(), it doesn't return a value suitable for sorting. + * The function doesn't need any conditional branches and possibly uses + * word memory accesses on CPU allowing cheap unaligned memory reads. * arrays = { byte1, byte2, byte3, byte4, byte6, byte7, pad1, pad2} * * Please note that alignment of addr1 & addr2 is only guaranted to be 16 bits. |