Commit ab24f50f authored by Alexander Aring's avatar Alexander Aring Committed by Marcel Holtmann
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mac802154: add helper for converting dev_addr 



This patch adds a helper for converting the dev_addr attribute in
netdevice to __le64 type. The dev_addr attribute is a char pointer
and contains the extended address in big endian byte order.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
parent 8f499f99

include/net/mac802154.h

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@@ -214,6 +214,15 @@ struct ieee802154_ops { 
						const bool on);

};



/**

 * ieee802154_netdev_to_extended_addr - convert __be64 u8 pointer to __le64

 * @dev_addr: big endian address pointer like netdevice dev_addr attribute

 */

static inline __le64 ieee802154_netdev_to_extended_addr(const u8 *dev_addr)

{

	return (__le64)swab64(*((__be64 *)dev_addr));

}



/* Basic interface to register ieee802154 hwice */

struct ieee802154_hw *

ieee802154_alloc_hw(size_t priv_data_len, const struct ieee802154_ops *ops);