[B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: use ether_addr_copy instead of memcpy in multicast code

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: use ether_addr_copy instead of memcpy in multicast code

[Linus Lüssing]

ether_addr_copy is supposed to be slightly more efficient for copying
mac addresses, so let's use it. This makes recent versions of checkpatch
happy, too.

Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
---
 multicast.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/multicast.c b/multicast.c
index 00bb30e..e69143b 100644
--- a/multicast.c
+++ b/multicast.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int batadv_mcast_mla_softif_get(struct net_device *dev,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		memcpy(&new->addr, &mc_list_entry->addr, ETH_ALEN);
+		ether_addr_copy(&new->addr, &mc_list_entry->addr);
 		hlist_add_head(&new->list, mcast_list);
 		ret++;
 	}
-- 
1.7.10.4

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: use ether_addr_copy instead of memcpy in multicast code

[Marek Lindner]

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On Monday 17 February 2014 23:12:35 Linus Lüssing wrote:
> ether_addr_copy is supposed to be slightly more efficient for copying
> mac addresses, so let's use it. This makes recent versions of checkpatch
> happy, too.
> 
> Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
> ---
>  multicast.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

We need an introduced by line, so Antonio later knows what patches to squash 
before sending them to David.

Cheers,
Marek

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