[PATCH 2/3] include: Convert ethernet mac address declarations to use ETH_ALEN

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue Jul 30 05:34:24 EST 2013


On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 13:59 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:29:04 PM Joe Perches wrote:
> > It's convenient to have ethernet mac addresses use
> > ETH_ALEN to be able to grep for them a bit easier and
> > also to ensure that the addresses are __aligned(2).
[]
> > diff --git a/include/acpi/actbl2.h b/include/acpi/actbl2.h
[]
> > @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
[]
> > +#include <linux/if_ether.h>
> > +
[]
> > @@ -605,7 +607,7 @@ struct acpi_ibft_nic {
[]
> > -	u8 mac_address[6];
> > +	u8 mac_address[ETH_ALEN];

> Please don't touch this file.
> 
> It comes from a code base outside of the kernel and should be kept in sync with
> the upstream.

Which files in include/acpi have this characteristic?
Perhaps an include/acpi/README is appropriate.



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