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| author | Johannes Berg | 2012-07-10 06:18:44 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2012-07-10 18:06:44 -0700 |
| commit | ad7eee98bef92481581060801bdfd1b25a6106c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 58ebce4c1f88893ac6bbb608299d896dad1e4361 /include | |
| parent | e044a651b9b7b1b33d8b7fdb2bb27e443f392083 (diff) | |
etherdevice: introduce eth_broadcast_addr
A lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy
from a static array that contains the all-ones broadcast
address. Introduce eth_broadcast_addr() to fill an address
with all ones, making the code clearer and allowing us to
get rid of some constant arrays.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/etherdevice.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index 3d406e0ede6d..98a27cccedfd 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -138,6 +138,17 @@ static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr) } /** + * eth_broadcast_addr - Assign broadcast address + * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address + * + * Assign the broadcast address to the given address array. + */ +static inline void eth_broadcast_addr(u8 *addr) +{ + memset(addr, 0xff, ETH_ALEN); +} + +/** * eth_hw_addr_random - Generate software assigned random Ethernet and * set device flag * @dev: pointer to net_device structure |