netdev - Re: [PATCH] etherdevice: introduce eth_broadcast

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Message-Id: <20120710.174142.995966539991957646.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:41:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com
Cc:	johannes@...solutions.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] etherdevice: introduce eth_broadcast_addr

From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:09:44 -0400

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Johannes Berg
> <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
>> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
>>
>> A lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy
>> from a static array that contains the all-ones broadcast
> 
> Shouldn't we see all that "lot of code" here in this same
> commit, now using this new shortcut?

I disagree and I intend to apply Johannes's patch as-is to net-next.

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