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

[Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 02:26 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

perhaps is_equal_ether_addr or is_same_ether_addr instead?


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