[PATCH] staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy()

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun May 17 23:27:10 UTC 2015


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 02:27:01AM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> This patch fixes to use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy()
> 
> Encounter this by applying checkpatch.pl against this file:
>   WARNING: Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy()
>   if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel at googlemail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

You need to prove that the addresses are aligned, please do so in the
changelog entry.


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