[U-Boot] [PATCH REPOST] checkpatch: ignore request to use ether_addr_copy()

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon Jan 25 17:48:00 CET 2016


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>
Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
---
 .checkpatch.conf | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.checkpatch.conf b/.checkpatch.conf
index 35167e12015b..d1d32fac9db5 100644
--- a/.checkpatch.conf
+++ b/.checkpatch.conf
@@ -21,3 +21,7 @@
 
 # Ignore networking block comment style
 --ignore NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE
+
+# Ignore "WARNING: Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet
+# addresses are __aligned(2)".
+--ignore PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY
-- 
2.7.0



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