Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: add eth_addr_inc in etherdevice.h

[Tao Ren]

On 4/23/19 4:15 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:41:56 +0000, Tao Ren wrote:
>> Add eth_addr_inc function in etherdevice.h to increment MAC address. One
>> of the use cases is in ncsi stack, where the host's MAC address needs to
>> be incremented to get BMC's MAC address.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tao Ren <taoren@xxxxxx>
> 
> Please squash this patch with the next one, IMHO they form a single
> logical change together.

Sure. Will send out updated patch soon.

>>  include/linux/etherdevice.h | 13 +++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/etherdevice.h b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
>> index e2f3b21cd72a..d48e3a724c54 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/etherdevice.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/etherdevice.h
>> @@ -448,6 +448,19 @@ static inline void eth_addr_dec(u8 *addr)
>>  	u64_to_ether_addr(u, addr);
>>  }
>>  
>> +/**
>> + * eth_addr_inc - Increment the given MAC address
>> + *
>> + * @addr: Pointer to a six-byte array containing Ethernet address to increment
> 
> Please see:  Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
> 
> Here we need:
>  - "()" after function name;
>  - no extra line between function name and argument description.

Thank you for pointing it out (I didn't know the doc-guide). Given I copied the function comment from eth_addr_dec(), I will also fix the format for eth_addr_eth() then.

BTW, "()" is missing from all the other functions' comment in etherdevice.h, so maybe we should fix that in a separate patch?


Thanks,

- Tao