Dec 30 2013

ipw2x00: use ether_addr_equal_64bits 

Author: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>

Ether_addr_equal_64bits is more efficient than ether_addr_equal, and can be
used when each argument is an array within a structure that contains at
least two bytes of data beyond the array.

The structure involved is
libipw_network defined in drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw.h

This was done using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 

---
 drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_rx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_rx.c
index 9ffe659..ce27859 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_rx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/libipw_rx.c
@@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ static inline int is_same_network(struct libipw_network *src,
 	 * as one network */
 	return ((src->ssid_len == dst->ssid_len) &&
 		(src->channel == dst->channel) &&
-		ether_addr_equal(src->bssid, dst->bssid) &&
+		ether_addr_equal_64bits(src->bssid, dst->bssid) &&
 		!memcmp(src->ssid, dst->ssid, src->ssid_len));
 }

qlambert