[Bridge] [PATCH 00/13] net: Add and use ether_addr_equal

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 21:21 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
> Date: Tue,  8 May 2012 21:56:44 -0700
> 
> > Add a boolean function to test 2 ethernet addresses for equality
> > Convert compare_ether_addr uses to ether_addr_equal
> 
> This series looks great, I'll apply all of it.

coccinelle is a nifty, better sed, tool.  Thanks Julia et al.

> That case you didn't convert in mac80211 is probably the
> bug Johannes was talking about which started this whole
> discussion.

Looks like it.

Do you want a similar patch/patches for drivers/net?

If I break it out by nominal driver/maintainer,
it'll be a highish number of low density patches.

$ git grep -w compare_ether_addr drivers/net | wc -l
59
$ git grep -w -l compare_ether_addr drivers/net | wc -l
31

Maybe just a single patch?

Also the compare_ether_addr_64bits function is
still used a couple dozen times.  Maybe another
patch for those?  ether_addr_equal_64bits?