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authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2012-05-21 21:39:42 +0200
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2012-05-21 21:39:42 +0200
commit0ad8c6a22d03a1598f7cc6585c65354dadca62ad (patch)
tree1507deef3d55d5f3c71b2f76924fe1f6c6211905 /include/linux/etherdevice.h
parent8527f8e2934683e53405fbe876a4e6f4a0c46eb8 (diff)
parent76e10d158efb6d4516018846f60c2ab5501900bc (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.h11
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.