linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next 1/7] bonding: use ether_addr_equal

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Date:	Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:14:33 +0100 (CET)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
cc:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next 1/7] bonding: use ether_addr_equal_unaligned
 for bond addr compare

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Ding Tianhong wrote:

> On 2014/1/2 16:38, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> > 
> >> On 2014/1/2 15:39, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >>> Are the casts needed
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, otherwise the warming will report:
> >>
> >> /net-next/drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c:427: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘ether_addr_equal_64bits’ from incompatible pointer type
> > 
> > Is it necessary for this driver to use a different type from everyone 
> > else?
> > 
> > julia
> > 
> Did you mean the MAC_ADDRESS_EQUAL is excess?
> I did not remove it because the codes no need to be changed more and it looks that didn't take any negative effect.

No, I was wondering about the mac_addr type, defined in bond_3ad.h.  Other 
code just has the array inlined into the containing structure.

julia