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: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Alexander Aring 2014-11-02 04:18:40 +01:00 committed by Marcel Holtmann
parent 8f499f991c
commit ab24f50f2a
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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);