netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 03/20] net: pcnet: slight optimization of addr compare

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Message-ID: <1387888739.2259.7.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Tue, 24 Dec 2013 04:38:59 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
Cc:	Don Fry <pcnet32@...ntier.com>, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/20] net: pcnet: slight optimization of addr compare

On Tue, 2013-12-24 at 19:27 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal_unaligned
> to instead of memcmp.

Hi again Ding.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/pcnet32.c
[]
> @@ -1668,7 +1668,7 @@ pcnet32_probe1(unsigned long ioaddr, int shared, struct pci_dev *pdev)
[]
> -	if (memcmp(promaddr, dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN) ||
> +	if (!ether_addr_equal(promaddr, dev->dev_addr) ||

Can you please make sure the commit message matches the
code changes?

This uses ether_addr_equal not ether_addr_equal_unaligned.

Thanks for the work.

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