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Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:01:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	vapier.adi@...il.com, tklauser@...tanz.ch,
	michael.hennerich@...log.com,
	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH net-next-2.6] netdev: bfin_mac:
 Use is_multicast_ether_addr helper

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:18:01 -0800

> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 11:38 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:30, Tobias Klauser wrote:
>> > --- a/drivers/net/bfin_mac.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/net/bfin_mac.c
>> > @@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ static void bfin_mac_multicast_hash(struct net_device *dev)
>> >                addrs = ha->addr;
>> >
>> >                /* skip non-multicast addresses */
>> > -               if (!(*addrs & 1))
>> > +               if (!is_multicast_ether_addr(addrs))
>> >                        continue;
>> 
>> looks good to me ...
>> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
> 
> Does a netdev_for_each_mc_addr loop entry really
> need to verify that the address is multicast?
> 
> Couldn't this just be:

It could, and I'd be happy to apply a follow-on patch that does
this.
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