linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/11] carl9170: use ether_addr_equal

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Message-ID: <10609239.5b8Q6kF6b9@debian64>
Date:	Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:10:58 +0100
From:	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] carl9170: use ether_addr_equal_64bits

On Monday, December 30, 2013 07:15:07 PM Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
> 
> Ether_addr_equal_64bits is more efficient than ether_addr_equal, and can be
> used when each argument is an array within a structure that contains at
> least two bytes of data beyond the array.
> 
> The structures involved are:
> ieee80211_hdr defined in include/linux/ieee80211.h,
> ieee80211_bar defined in include/linux/ieee80211.h and
> ath_common defined in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.h
> 
> This was done using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...6.fr>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>
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