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

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Date:	Mon, 30 Dec 2013 10:14:15 +0800
From:	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Ding Tianhong <dthxman@...il.com>
CC:	Dmitry Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@...kless.no>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 20/20] net: caif: slight optimization of addr
 compare

On 2013/12/29 1:04, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 23:02 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> 于 2013/12/28 14:59, Joe Perches 写道:
>>> On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 14:18 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>>>> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
>>>> to instead of memcmp.
>>>
>>> This may be a distinction without difference, but
>>> is a CAIF seghead also an ethernet address?
>>>
>> NO，this is a coincidence, the CAIF seghead is 6 bytes too,
>> So from a logical point of view, maybe a new function with
>> suitable name will be more reasonable here, but the name of
>> ether_addr_equal is not correctly here.:)
> 
> So please remove this one from the series.
> 
> 

Yes, Ok!

Regards
Ding
> 
> 


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