Re: [PATCH] staging: batman-adv: Use linux/etherdevice.h address helper functions

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On Wednesday 03 November 2010 11:56:19 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2010 11:25:12 Tobias Klauser wrote:
> > On 2010-11-03 at 11:12:12 +0100, Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@xxxxxx>
> 
> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 03 November 2010 10:59:02 you wrote:
> > > > Replace custom ethernet address check functions by calls to the
> > > > helpers in linux/etherdevice.h
> > > 
> > > Have you proven that the addresses are always two bytes aligned in
> > > memory? Afaik this function needs it.
> > 
> > I don't think they need to be two bytes aligned, but I might be wrong.
> 
> compare_ether_addr uses a two byte pointer to access 3x two bytes. This
> makes it necessary to have all those 3 bytes aligned to 2 byte boundaries.

3x two bytes for each ethernet address == 6x two bytes and not 3 bytes... I 
don't know why I wrote that.

Best regards,
	Sven

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