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

[Marek Vasut]

On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 05:48:00 PM, Stephen Warren 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>
> Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>

+CC Tom, Simon

> ---
>  .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

Best regards,
Marek Vasut