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From: Jagan Teki <jteki@openedev.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Jagan Teki <jteki@openedev.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy()
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 02:27:01 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1431896221-7599-1-git-send-email-jteki@openedev.com> (raw)

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(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
index 6e776e5..0d27df6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int r871x_net_set_mac_address(struct net_device *pnetdev, void *p)
 	struct sockaddr *addr = p;
 
 	if (padapter->bup == false)
-		memcpy(pnetdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
+		ether_addr_copy(pnetdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ static int netdev_open(struct net_device *pnetdev)
 			goto netdev_open_error;
 		if (r8712_initmac == NULL)
 			/* Use the mac address stored in the Efuse */
-			memcpy(pnetdev->dev_addr,
-				padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr, ETH_ALEN);
+			ether_addr_copy(pnetdev->dev_addr,
+					padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr);
 		else {
 			/* We have to inform f/w to use user-supplied MAC
 			 * address.
@@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ static int netdev_open(struct net_device *pnetdev)
 			 * the eeprompriv.mac_addr should store the mac which
 			 * users specify.
 			 */
-			memcpy(padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr,
-				pnetdev->dev_addr, ETH_ALEN);
+			ether_addr_copy(padapter->eeprompriv.mac_addr,
+					pnetdev->dev_addr);
 		}
 		if (start_drv_threads(padapter) != _SUCCESS)
 			goto netdev_open_error;
-- 
1.9.1


             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-17 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-17 20:57 Jagan Teki [this message]
2015-05-17 23:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-05-18  0:09 ` Larry Finger

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