[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: ignore request to use ether_addr_copy()

[Joe Hershberger]

Hi Stephen,

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 11/23/2015 04:36 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> The Linux kernel, from which checkpatch originates, contains function
>>> ether_addr_copy() to copy Ethernet MAC addresses, and checkpatch warns
>>> that it should be used in preference to memcpy() where appropriate.
>>> U-Boot doesn't contain ether_addr_copy(), so tell checkpatch not to issue
>>> this warning.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>
>>
>> Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
>
>
> Were you intending someone else to apply this? I think now that Ted Chen has
> taken over the USB NIC driver (which was patch 2 in this series), this patch
> should be applied separately.

It is assigned to Marek in patchwork. If he's not going to take it,
then assign it to me and I'll pull it in.

-Joe