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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -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. |