linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 20/20] net: caif: slight optimization of addr compare

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Message-ID: <1388250271.24123.4.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Sat, 28 Dec 2013 09:04:31 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Ding Tianhong <dthxman@...il.com>
Cc:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
	Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 20/20] net: caif: slight optimization of
 addr compare

On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 23:02 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> 于 2013/12/28 14:59, Joe Perches 写道:
> > On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 14:18 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> >> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
> >> to instead of memcmp.
> > 
> > This may be a distinction without difference, but
> > is a CAIF seghead also an ethernet address?
> > 
> NO，this is a coincidence, the CAIF seghead is 6 bytes too,
> So from a logical point of view, maybe a new function with
> suitable name will be more reasonable here, but the name of
> ether_addr_equal is not correctly here.:)

So please remove this one from the series.


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