Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 May 2015 16:27:10 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy() |
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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@openedev.com> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> > Cc: Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@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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