openwrt/target/linux/generic/backport-6.1/611-v6.3-net-add-helper-eth_addr_add.patch
Christian Marangi f79af59383
generic: 6.1: refresh backport patches
Refresh backport patches with make target/linux/refresh.

Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
2023-05-22 22:28:16 +02:00

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From 7390609b0121a1b982c5ecdfcd72dc328e5784ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 13:43:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
include/linux/etherdevice.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
--- 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