Subject: rfc: treewide replace local ethernet broadcast char arrays with a global ?

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:00:09 -0700

Treewide there are ~60 declarations of a ethernet broadcast
address as a 6 byte array that are later used as either an
output for vsprintf extension %pM or as a source array to
copy or compare.

Perhaps it'd be useful to declare a global static const u8[]
in net somewhere instead to save the text/data space of these
duplicate declarations.

$ grep-2.5.4 -n --include=*.[ch] "\b(?:static\s+)?(?:const\s+)?(?:char|unsigned\s+char|u8)\s+\w+\s*\[\s*(?:ETH_ALEN|6)\s*\]\s*=\s*\{\s*(?:(?i:0xff|255),\s*){5,5}\s*(?i:0xff|255)\s*\}" * | \
  grep -P "\.[ch]:\d+:"