netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/50] eth: reset addr_assign_type if eth_mac

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Message-Id: <201202082357.28972.danny.kukawka@bisect.de>
Date:	Wed, 8 Feb 2012 23:57:28 +0100
From:	Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/50] eth: reset addr_assign_type if eth_mac_addr() called

On Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2012, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed,  8 Feb 2012 22:10:08 +0100
>
> Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka@...ect.de> wrote:
> > +	if (dev->addr_assign_type & NET_ADDR_RANDOM)
> > +		dev->addr_assign_type ^= NET_ADDR_RANDOM;
>
> Why not just avoid the conditional, or better yet use bitops?
>
> 	dev->addr_assign_type &= ~NET_ADDR_RANDOM;

Okay, If I have comments on the other patches back, I will send new versions 
which avoid the if. Thanks for the hint.

Danny

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