Re: [PATCH] bridge: netfilter: spanning tree: Add masked_ether_addr_equal and neatening

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:58:45PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> There is code duplication of a masked ethernet address comparison here
> so make it a separate function instead.
> 
> Miscellanea:
> 
> o Neaten alignment of FWINV macro uses to make it clearer for the reader

Applied, thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> This masked_ether_addr_equal function could go into etherdevice.h,
> but I don't see another use like it in kernel code.  Is there one?

This is specific of iptables, not even nftables would use this. So I
would keep this in the iptables tree.