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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Jun 23 2016 - 15:06:14 EST


On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 19:36 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 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.

Did you see the other patch that adds a generic
ether_addr_equal_masked() and uses it in a few
more files?