linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/50] eth: reset addr_assign_type if eth_mac

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Message-ID: <20120208145004.171e4d54@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:50:04 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Danny Kukawka <dkukawka@...e.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/50] eth: reset addr_assign_type if eth_mac_addr()
 called

On Wed,  8 Feb 2012 22:10:08 +0100
Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de> wrote:

> +	if (dev->addr_assign_type & NET_ADDR_RANDOM)
> +		dev->addr_assign_type ^= NET_ADDR_RANDOM;

Why not just avoid the conditional, or better yet use bitops?

	dev->addr_assign_type &= ~NET_ADDR_RANDOM;

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