Return-path: Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.83]:25199 "EHLO mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756199Ab3L3RTG (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Dec 2013 12:19:06 -0500 From: Julia Lawall To: Christian Lamparter Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 3/11] mac80211: use ether_addr_equal_64bits Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 19:14:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1388427307-8691-4-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> (sfid-20131230_182339_915063_432F706F) In-Reply-To: <1388427307-8691-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> References: <1388427307-8691-1-git-send-email-Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Julia Lawall Ether_addr_equal_64bits is more efficient than ether_addr_equal, and can be used when each argument is an array within a structure that contains at least two bytes of data beyond the array. The structures involved are: ieee80211_hdr defined in include/linux/ieee80211.h and p54_common defined in drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54.h This was done using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/). Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- The semantic patch used is rather long and can be found in message 0 of this patch series. drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c index f95de0d..b7cc7c2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static void p54_pspoll_workaround(struct p54_common *priv, struct sk_buff *skb) return; /* only consider beacons from the associated BSSID */ - if (!ether_addr_equal(hdr->addr3, priv->bssid)) + if (!ether_addr_equal_64bits(hdr->addr3, priv->bssid)) return; tim = p54_find_ie(skb, WLAN_EID_TIM);