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

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Jan 20 21:47:55 CET 2016


On 01/13/2016 11:23 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/15/2015 04:41 PM, Joe Hershberger wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Marek,
>
> Are you taking this patch? If not, could you please re-assign it to Joe;
> I don't believe I can modify patchwork myself.

Marek?

Tom, are you able to re-assign this patch to Joe in patchwork?

Thanks.


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