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

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Mon Jan 25 22:38:28 CET 2016


On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 10:34:40 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 01/25/2016 01:43 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I believe Tom just applied the original posting of this:
> 
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2016-January/243151.html
> checkpatch: ignore request to use ether_addr_copy()

Well then, that's fine. Thanks!

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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