<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ANSI_X3.4-1968" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>is_etherdev_addr</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Networking and Network Devices APIs" /><link rel="up" href="ch02.html#id2748878" title="Driver Support" /><link rel="prev" href="re272.html" title="compare_ether_addr_64bits" /><link rel="next" href="re274.html" title="compare_ether_header" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>is_etherdev_addr</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re272.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Driver Support</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re274.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="is_etherdev_addr"><a id="API-is-etherdev-addr"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>is_etherdev_addr — Tell if given Ethernet address belongs to the device. </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">bool <b class="fsfunc">is_etherdev_addr </b>(</code></td><td>const struct net_device * <var class="pdparam">dev</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>const u8 <var class="pdparam">addr[6 + 2]</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id2759727"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>dev</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> Pointer to a device structure </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>addr[6 + 2]</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> Pointer to a six-byte array containing the Ethernet address </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id2759772"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> Compare passed address with all addresses of the device. Return true if the address if one of the device addresses. </p><p> Note that this function calls <code class="function">compare_ether_addr_64bits</code> so take care of the right padding. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re272.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch02.html#id2748878">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re274.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"><span>compare_ether_addr_64bits</span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span>compare_ether_header</span></td></tr></table></div></body></html>