[PATCH v3 3/4] staging: rtl8723bs: use ether_addr_copy() in rtw_macaddr_cfg()

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Tue Jun 26 20:17:44 UTC 2018


On Tue, 2018-06-26 at 21:44 +0200, Michael Straube wrote:
> On 06/26/18 19:32, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Michael Straube
> > <straube.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy() to copy the mac address.
> > > 
> > 
> > Suggested-by ?
> > 
> 
> I'll add it. Sorry, I was not aware of the Suggested-by tag.
> 
> > Btw, ensure that the source and destination buffers are aligned to u16
> > as required by API.
> 
> To be honest I'm not sure how to do that excactly.
> 
> Use __align(2) in the array declarations? e.g.:
> 
>          u8 mac[ETH_ALEN] __align(2);

All initial function automatics are naturally aligned.
> 


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