Re: [PATCH] net: compare_ether_addr[_64bits]() has no ordering

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 07:25:44 +0200

> I suppose I could fix those first and then later change the type, but I
> think having a "compare_ether_addr" function that returns *false* when
> they *match* would be rather confusing. I'd rather have
> "equal_ether_addr()" that returns *true* when they match.
> 
> I guess we could introduce equal_ether_addr() though and slowly convert,
> keeping compare_ether_addr() as a sort of wrapper around it.

Indeed, this is one way to proceed.
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