*
* 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
memcpy (dest->data, src, len);
}
+/**
+ * is_zero_ether_addr - Determine if give Ethernet address is all
+ * zeros.
+ */
+static inline int is_zero_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
+{
+ 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] & 0x01;
+}
+
/**
* 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 )
+static inline int is_valid_ether_addr(const u8 *addr)
{
- const char zaddr[6] = {0,};
-
- return !(addr[0]&1) && memcmp( addr, zaddr, 6);
+ /* 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 */