etherdevice: introduce help function eth_zero_addr()
authorDuan Jiong <djduanjiong@gmail.com>
Sat, 8 Sep 2012 16:32:28 +0000 (16:32 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Mon, 22 Aug 2016 21:37:17 +0000 (22:37 +0100)
commit4c751e9d1fdd725feaa8d83e5680dbec3f1f7178
tree5dc1fb99a0945e0bcbb293f5a2dd7fa44129d726
parentfaaea5c5f2bb1266ea35a1dcbe0b685f826f6637
etherdevice: introduce help function eth_zero_addr()

commit 6d57e9078e880a3dd232d579f42ac437a8f1ef7b upstream.

a lot of code has either the memset or an inefficient copy
from a static array that contains the all-zeros Ethernet address.
Introduce help function eth_zero_addr() to fill an address with
all zeros, making the code clearer and allowing us to get rid of
some constant arrays.

Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <djduanjiong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
include/linux/etherdevice.h