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

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Jan 20 22:04:04 CET 2016


On 01/20/2016 02:00 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:47:55PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Which? https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/570547/ ?

Just patch 1/2 not 2/2:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/544360/
checkpatch: ignore request to use ether_addr_copy()


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