*
* Version: @(#)eth.h 1.0.4 05/13/93
*
- * Authors: Ross Biro, <bir7@leland.Stanford.Edu>
+ * Authors: Ross Biro
* Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
*
* Relocated to include/linux where it belongs by Alan Cox
#define _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H
#include <linux/if_ether.h>
+#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/random.h>
#ifdef __KERNEL__
unsigned short type, void *daddr,
void *saddr, unsigned len);
extern int eth_rebuild_header(struct sk_buff *skb);
-extern unsigned short eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
+extern __be16 eth_type_trans(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev);
extern void eth_header_cache_update(struct hh_cache *hh, struct net_device *dev,
unsigned char * haddr);
extern int eth_header_cache(struct neighbour *neigh,
return !(addr[0] | addr[1] | addr[2] | addr[3] | addr[4] | addr[5]);
}
+/**
+ * is_multicast_ether_addr - Determine if the given Ethernet address is a
+ * multicast address.
+ *
+ * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
+ *
+ * Return true if the address is a multicast address.
+ */
+static inline int is_multicast_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
+{
+ return ((addr[0] != 0xff) && (0x01 & addr[0]));
+}
+
/**
* is_valid_ether_addr - Determine if the given Ethernet address is valid
* @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address
*
* Check that the Ethernet address (MAC) is not 00:00:00:00:00:00, is not
- * a multicast address, and is not FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. The multicast
- * and FF:FF:... tests are combined into the single test "!(addr[0]&1)".
+ * a multicast address, and is not FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
*
* Return true if the address is valid.
*/
static inline int is_valid_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
{
- return !(addr[0]&1) && !is_zero_ether_addr(addr);
+ /* FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF is a multicast address so we don't need to
+ * explicitly check for it here. */
+ return !is_multicast_ether_addr(addr) && !is_zero_ether_addr(addr);
}
/**
addr [0] &= 0xfe; /* clear multicast bit */
addr [0] |= 0x02; /* set local assignment bit (IEEE802) */
}
-#endif
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_ETHERDEVICE_H */