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From: Punit Vara <punitvara@gmail.com>
To: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net
Cc: florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	stillcompiling@gmail.com, sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com,
	dan.carpenter@oracle.com, dogukan.ergun@gmail.com,
	Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Punit Vara <punitvara@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_equal() over memcmp()
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 22:28:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1444496322-3648-3-git-send-email-punitvara@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444496322-3648-1-git-send-email-punitvara@gmail.com>

This patch is to the rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c file that fixes up following
warning reported by checkpatch.pl :

-Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()

bssid has datatype u8 and pnetwork->network.MacAddress has data type
 unsigned char.

Signed-off-by: Punit Vara <punitvara@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
index 2ba055d..1c9092e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -2007,7 +2007,7 @@ static int r871x_get_ap_info(struct net_device *dev,
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 		netdev_info(dev, "r8712u: BSSID:%pM\n", bssid);
-		if (!memcmp(bssid, pnetwork->network.MacAddress, ETH_ALEN)) {
+		if (!ether_addr_equal(bssid, pnetwork->network)) {
 			/* BSSID match, then check if supporting wpa/wpa2 */
 			pbuf = r8712_get_wpa_ie(&pnetwork->network.IEs[12],
 			       &wpa_ielen, pnetwork->network.IELength-12);
-- 
2.5.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-10 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-10 16:58 [PATCH 0/4] Staging: rtl8712: Fix coding style warnings Punit Vara
2015-10-10 16:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] Staging: rtl8712: Fix warning prefer eth_broadcast_addr() over memset() Punit Vara
2015-10-10 16:58 ` Punit Vara [this message]
2015-10-10 17:34   ` [PATCH 2/4] Staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_equal() over memcmp() Larry Finger
2015-10-10 19:47     ` punit vara
2015-10-10 19:50       ` Julia Lawall
2015-10-10 20:22         ` punit vara
2015-10-10 20:26           ` punit vara
2015-10-10 23:59   ` kbuild test robot
2015-10-11  0:37   ` kbuild test robot
2015-10-11 11:12     ` punit vara
2015-10-11 17:23       ` Joe Perches
2015-10-10 16:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] Staging: rtl8712: Coding style warnings fix for block comments Punit Vara
2015-10-10 16:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] Staging: rtl8712: fix warning for placing constant on the right side of test Punit Vara
2015-10-10 17:07   ` Julia Lawall
2015-10-10 19:52     ` punit vara

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