net: benet: slight optimization of addr compare

PATCH Superseded Ding Tianhong 1 participant 1 message Dec 28, 2013

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Networking Network drivers Emulex 10Gbps NIC BE2, BE3-r, Lancer, Skyhawk-R driver (be2net)

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Ding Tianhong

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2013-12-28 06:17 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH v2 5/20 net: benet: slight optimization of addr compare

Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal to instead of memcmp.

Cc Sathya Perla <[email protected]>

Cc Subbu Seetharaman <[email protected]>

Cc Ajit Khaparde <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Ding Tianhong <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c +1 -1

index f67586a..b5c238a 100644
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static int be_mac_addr_set(struct net_device *netdev, void *p)
 	/* The MAC change did not happen, either due to lack of privilege
 	 * or PF didn't pre-provision.
 	 */
-	if (memcmp(addr->sa_data, mac, ETH_ALEN)) {
+	if (!ether_addr_equal(addr->sa_data, mac)) {
 		status = -EPERM;
 		goto err;
 	}

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