From ad7eee98bef92481581060801bdfd1b25a6106c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:18:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] etherdevice: introduce eth_broadcast_addr A lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy from a static array that contains the all-ones broadcast address. Introduce eth_broadcast_addr() to fill an address with all ones, making the code clearer and allowing us to get rid of some constant arrays. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/etherdevice.h | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index 3d406e0ede6d..98a27cccedfd 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -138,6 +138,17 @@ static inline void random_ether_addr(u8 *addr) } /** + * eth_broadcast_addr - Assign broadcast address + * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address + * + * Assign the broadcast address to the given address array. + */ +static inline void eth_broadcast_addr(u8 *addr) +{ + memset(addr, 0xff, ETH_ALEN); +} + +/** * eth_hw_addr_random - Generate software assigned random Ethernet and * set device flag * @dev: pointer to net_device structure -- 2.11.0