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authorAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>2014-01-22 03:42:11 +0400
committerAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>2014-03-22 11:50:26 +0400
commit8fdd01530cda849ba531e7e9d8674fbc81ab5782 (patch)
treed2a19df1128530d694d7dce1c04d6f24515beb26 /net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
parente88b617d84b53170f0781cc0756019c5b1855890 (diff)
downloadlinux-8fdd01530cda849ba531e7e9d8674fbc81ab5782.tar.xz
batman-adv: prefer ether_addr_copy to memcpy
On some architectures ether_addr_copy() is slightly faster than memcpy() therefore use the former when possible. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
index c4392fcd4eb0..db3e46783c6b 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/soft-interface.c
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ static int batadv_interface_set_mac_addr(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
if (!is_valid_ether_addr(addr->sa_data))
return -EADDRNOTAVAIL;
- memcpy(old_addr, dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
- memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
+ ether_addr_copy(old_addr, dev->dev_addr);
+ ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data);
/* only modify transtable if it has been initialized before */
if (atomic_read(&bat_priv->mesh_state) == BATADV_MESH_ACTIVE) {
@@ -279,8 +279,8 @@ send:
/* hw address of first interface is the orig mac because only
* this mac is known throughout the mesh
*/
- memcpy(bcast_packet->orig,
- primary_if->net_dev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
+ ether_addr_copy(bcast_packet->orig,
+ primary_if->net_dev->dev_addr);
/* set broadcast sequence number */
seqno = atomic_inc_return(&bat_priv->bcast_seqno);