net: add macro to extract MAC address bytes

[dpdk.git] / lib / net / rte_ether.h

diff --git a/lib/net/rte_ether.h b/lib/net/rte_ether.h
index 8d126d4..d0eeb6f 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/net/rte_ether.h
+++ b/lib/net/rte_ether.h
@@ -225,6 +225,15 @@ rte_ether_addr_copy(const struct rte_ether_addr *__restrict ea_from,
  * Macro to print six-bytes of MAC address in hex format
  */
 #define RTE_ETHER_ADDR_PRT_FMT     "%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X"
+/**
+ * Macro to extract the MAC address bytes from rte_ether_addr struct
+ */
+#define RTE_ETHER_ADDR_BYTES(mac_addrs) ((mac_addrs)->addr_bytes[0]), \
+                                        ((mac_addrs)->addr_bytes[1]), \
+                                        ((mac_addrs)->addr_bytes[2]), \
+                                        ((mac_addrs)->addr_bytes[3]), \
+                                        ((mac_addrs)->addr_bytes[4]), \
+                                        ((mac_addrs)->addr_bytes[5])
 
 #define RTE_ETHER_ADDR_FMT_SIZE         18
 /**