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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/etherdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/etherdevice.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index 05955cf09937..fe5136d81454 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -140,17 +140,18 @@ static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr) } /** - * dev_hw_addr_random - Create random MAC and set device flag + * eth_hw_addr_random - Generate software assigned random Ethernet and + * set device flag * @dev: pointer to net_device structure - * @hwaddr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address * - * Generate random MAC to be used by a device and set addr_assign_type - * so the state can be read by sysfs and be used by udev. + * Generate a random Ethernet address (MAC) to be used by a net device + * and set addr_assign_type so the state can be read by sysfs and be + * used by userspace. */ -static inline void dev_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev, u8 *hwaddr) +static inline void eth_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev) { dev->addr_assign_type |= NET_ADDR_RANDOM; - random_ether_addr(hwaddr); + random_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr); } /** @@ -158,7 +159,8 @@ static inline void dev_hw_addr_random(struct net_device *dev, u8 *hwaddr) * @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) { @@ -183,10 +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. |