netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] etherdevice: Add eth_<foo>_addr CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED

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Date:	Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:01:57 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/14] etherdevice: Add eth_<foo>_addr
 CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS code

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 12:04:28 -0800

> On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 14:58 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:41:09 -0800
>> 
>> Converting these locations to consistently use eth_*() is fine,
>> but then "optimizing" a 6 by memset for configuration paths when
>> the compiler should be more than capable of doing this just fine
>> is not convincing at all to me.
> 
> Swell, then perhaps you could simply skip 1/14.

Yes, that's reasonable, applied to net-next.
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