Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 20/20] net: caif: slight optimization of addr compare

From: Ding Tianhong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:02:08 +0800

于 2013/12/28 14:59, Joe Perches 写道:
> On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 14:18 +0800, Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
>> to instead of memcmp.
> 
> This may be a distinction without difference, but
> is a CAIF seghead also an ethernet address?
> 

NO，this is a coincidence, the CAIF seghead is 6 bytes too,
So from a logical point of view, maybe a new function with
suitable name will be more reasonable here, but the name of
ether_addr_equal is not correctly here.:)

thanks

Regards
Ding

>> diff --git a/net/caif/cfrfml.c b/net/caif/cfrfml.c
> []
>> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static struct cfpkt *rfm_append(struct cfrfml *rfml, char *seghead,
> []
>>  	/* Verify correct header */
>> -	if (memcmp(seghead, rfml->seghead, 6) != 0)
>> +	if (!ether_addr_equal(seghead, rfml->seghead))
> 
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