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| author | Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc> | 2023-02-06 16:43:42 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2023-02-06 21:06:58 +0300 |
| commit | 7390609b0121a1b982c5ecdfcd72dc328e5784ee (patch) | |
| tree | 4f7f5f432ac9543a85a70a2bf3d725bbe5b63d62 /include/linux/etherdevice.h | |
| parent | 2e8dc541ae207349b51c65391be625ffe1f86e0c (diff) | |
| download | linux-7390609b0121a1b982c5ecdfcd72dc328e5784ee.tar.xz | |
net: add helper eth_addr_add()
Add a helper to add an offset to a ethernet address. This comes in handy
if you have a base ethernet address for multiple interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230206134356.839737-9-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/etherdevice.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/etherdevice.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h index a541f0c4f146..224645f17c33 100644 --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h @@ -508,6 +508,20 @@ static inline void eth_addr_inc(u8 *addr) } /** + * eth_addr_add() - Add (or subtract) an offset to/from the given MAC address. + * + * @offset: Offset to add. + * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing Ethernet address to increment. + */ +static inline void eth_addr_add(u8 *addr, long offset) +{ + u64 u = ether_addr_to_u64(addr); + + u += offset; + u64_to_ether_addr(u, addr); +} + +/** * is_etherdev_addr - Tell if given Ethernet address belongs to the device. * @dev: Pointer to a device structure * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address |