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

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 00:36:55 CET 2015


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>


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