netdev - Re: [RFC V3 1/2] I'dcfg80211: Move the definition of struct mac

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Date:	Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:09:38 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@....qualcomm.com>,
	linville@...driver.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC V3 1/2] I'dcfg80211: Move the definition of struct
 mac_address up

On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 21:38 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 09:47 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> > struct mac_address will be used by ACL related configuration ops.
> 
> I'd prefer that any new code _not_ use struct mac_address
> but use u8 addr[ETH_ALEN] instead.

Passing around arrays of that is inconvenient, hence the struct.

johannes

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