From: Jagan Teki Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 16:32:45 +0000 (+0530) Subject: staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy() X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=71d667b800c53f840f516eb7d332186ffee3e84a;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_copy() instead of memcpy() Fixes Warning encounter this by applying checkpatch.pl against this file: Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2) pahole output for respective structures: - addr->sa_data struct sockaddr { sa_family_t sa_family; /* 0 2 */ char sa_data[14]; /* 2 14 */ /* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 2 */ /* last cacheline: 16 bytes */ }; - pnetdev->dev_addr dev_addr is interface address infor from generic net_device structure which is properly aligned and have some patches with this change as well. "staging: rtl8712: fix Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy()" (sha1: 36e4d8826b317080e283e4edd08bf8d5ac706f38) Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Larry Finger Cc: Florian Schilhabel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c index 6e776e5433f6..d5f4c4d26a9c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/os_intfs.c @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static int r871x_net_set_mac_address(struct net_device *pnetdev, void *p) struct sockaddr *addr = p; if (padapter->bup == false) - memcpy(pnetdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); + ether_addr_copy(pnetdev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data); return 0; }