Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000, e1000e valid-addr fixes

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:31:21 -0400

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> How about:
> 
> static int eth_validate_addr(const struct net_device *dev)
> {
> 	return is_valid_ether_addr(dev->dev_addr) ? 0 : -EINVAL;
> }

hmmm -- its a slow path, so I don't see the value of marking the 
argument 'const' -- right now this implementation merely reads the 
dev->dev_addr[], but that need not always be the case.

And I don't see the value of squashing everything onto one line, IMO the 
current version is more readable.

	Jeff