[PATCH 2/4] Staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_equal() over memcmp()

Punit Vara punitvara at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 16:58:40 UTC 2015


This patch is to the rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c file that fixes up following
warning reported by checkpatch.pl :

-Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()

bssid has datatype u8 and pnetwork->network.MacAddress has data type
 unsigned char.

Signed-off-by: Punit Vara <punitvara at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
index 2ba055d..1c9092e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -2007,7 +2007,7 @@ static int r871x_get_ap_info(struct net_device *dev,
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		netdev_info(dev, "r8712u: BSSID:%pM\n", bssid);
-		if (!memcmp(bssid, pnetwork->network.MacAddress, ETH_ALEN)) {
+		if (!ether_addr_equal(bssid, pnetwork->network)) {
 			/* BSSID match, then check if supporting wpa/wpa2 */
 			pbuf = r8712_get_wpa_ie(&pnetwork->network.IEs[12],
 			       &wpa_ielen, pnetwork->network.IELength-12);
-- 
2.5.3



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