From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH REPOST] checkpatch: ignore request to use ether_addr_copy()
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:34:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A694F0.6060803@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201601252143.31008.marex@denx.de>
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@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@nvidia.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
>> Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@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()
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-25 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-25 16:48 [U-Boot] [PATCH REPOST] checkpatch: ignore request to use ether_addr_copy() Stephen Warren
2016-01-25 20:43 ` Marek Vasut
2016-01-25 21:34 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2016-01-25 21:38 ` Marek Vasut
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