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authorGreg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>2010-07-01 15:39:23 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-07-02 07:45:57 +0200
commitde42edde131cd09a556f0b90373569d64b92ef99 (patch)
tree9b54e6e7fb42a984eab8addf5a8b133730691fd7 /drivers/net/igb
parentigb: correct link test not being run when link is down (diff)
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Add explanatory comment to avoid confusion when a pointer is set to the second word of an array instead of the customary cast of a pointer to the beginning of the array. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/igb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
index d811462ab9b6..9cb04e29ad13 100644
--- a/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -4974,6 +4974,10 @@ static void igb_vf_reset_msg(struct igb_adapter *adapter, u32 vf)
static int igb_set_vf_mac_addr(struct igb_adapter *adapter, u32 *msg, int vf)
{
+ /*
+ * The VF MAC Address is stored in a packed array of bytes
+ * starting at the second 32 bit word of the msg array
+ */
unsigned char *addr = (char *)&msg[1];
int err = -1;