linux-toradex.git/include/linux/etherdevice.h, branch v3.7

etherdevice: introduce help function eth_zero_addr()

2012-09-10T19:49:54+00:00

a lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy
from a static array that contains the all-zeros Ethernet address.
Introduce help function eth_zero_addr() to fill an address with
all zeros, making the code clearer and allowing us to get rid of
some constant arrays.

Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdevice: Rename random_ether_addr to eth_random_addr

2012-07-17T05:38:27+00:00

Add some API symmetry to eth_broadcast_addr and
add a #define to the old name for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdevice: introduce eth_broadcast_addr

2012-07-11T01:06:44+00:00

A lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy
from a static array that contains the all-ones broadcast
address. Introduce eth_broadcast_addr() to fill an address
with all ones, making the code clearer and allowing us to
get rid of some constant arrays.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdevice: fix comments

2012-05-17T19:36:35+00:00

Fix some minor problems in comments of etherdevice.h
 * Warning is out dated, file hasn't moved or disappeared in many years and
    is unlikely to do so soon.
 * Capitalize Ethernet consistently since it is a proper name
 * Fix descriptive comment of padding
 * Spelling and grammar fix for alignment comment

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdevice: Remove now unused compare_ether_addr_64bits

2012-05-13T03:34:50+00:00

Move and invert the logic from the otherwise unused
compare_ether_addr_64bits to ether_addr_equal_64bits.

Neaten the logic in is_etherdev_addr.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal_64bits

2012-05-11T03:33:01+00:00

Add an optimized boolean function to check if
2 ethernet addresses are the same.

This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr_64bits
returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the
compare_ether_addr_64bits function for sorting ala memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdevice.h: Add ether_addr_equal

2012-05-10T00:49:16+00:00

Add a boolean function to check if 2 ethernet addresses
are the same.

This is to avoid any confusion about compare_ether_addr
returning an unsigned, and not being able to use the
compare_ether_addr function for sorting ala memcmp.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

etherdev.h: Convert int is__ether_addr to bool

2012-05-08T17:06:16+00:00

Make the return value explicitly true or false.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: compare_ether_addr[_64bits]() has no ordering

2012-05-07T23:21:29+00:00

Neither compare_ether_addr() nor compare_ether_addr_64bits()
(as it can fall back to the former) have comparison semantics
like memcmp() where the sign of the return value indicates sort
order. We had a bug in the wireless code due to a blind memcmp
replacement because of this.

A cursory look suggests that the wireless bug was the only one
due to this semantic difference.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

rename dev_hw_addr_random and remove redundant second

2012-02-13T05:46:41+00:00

Renamed dev_hw_addr_random to eth_hw_addr_random() to reflect that
this function only assign a random ethernet address (MAC). Removed
the second parameter (u8 *hwaddr), it's redundant since the also
given net_device already contains net_device->dev_addr.
Set it directly.

Adapt igbvf and ixgbevf to the changed function.

Small fix for ixgbevf_probe(): if ixgbevf_sw_init() fails
(which means the device got no dev_addr) handle the error and
jump to err_sw_init as already done by igbvf in similar case.

Signed-off-by: Danny Kukawka 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller