linux-kernel - [PATCH 02/21] net: freescale: slight optimization of addr compare

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Date:	Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:09:44 +0800
From:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
To:	Li Yang <leoli@...escale.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: [PATCH 02/21] net: freescale: slight optimization of addr compare

Use the recently added and possibly more efficient
ether_addr_equal_unaligned to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Li Yang <leoli@...escale.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c
index 5548b6d..88a1525 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/ucc_geth.c
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ static void hw_add_addr_in_hash(struct ucc_geth_private *ugeth,
 
 static inline int compare_addr(u8 **addr1, u8 **addr2)
 {
-	return memcmp(addr1, addr2, ETH_ALEN);
+	return !ether_addr_equal_unaligned(addr1, addr2);
 }
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
-- 
1.8.0


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