Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] net: Add and use ether_addr_equal

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:56:55 +0200

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 23:54 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 08:48 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 21:21 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > > That case you didn't convert in mac80211 is probably the
> > > bug Johannes was talking about which started this whole
> > > discussion.
> > 
> > The bug case that started it all is in net/wireless/scan.c and Emmanuel
> > has since changed it back to memcmp(). Not sure if that's the one you
> > were referring to or not :-)
> 
> That's the one that I left alone.
> 
> Post patch:
> $ git grep -n -w compare_ether_addr net
> net/batman-adv/main.h:198: * note: can't use compare_ether_addr() as it requires aligned memory
> net/wireless/scan.c:381:        return compare_ether_addr(a->bssid, b->bssid);

Ok, great, then that means the fix from Emmanuel won't conflict when it
gets in.

johannes