From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751953AbbECUa4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2015 16:30:56 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:52998 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751896AbbECUar (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 May 2015 16:30:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 21:54:42 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Abhishek Bist Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, abhishek@emblogic.org, stankus.modestas@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging : wlan-ng: fix memcpy with ether_addr_copy in p80211conv.c Message-ID: <20150503195442.GA20053@kroah.com> References: <1430478517-15601-1-git-send-email-ishubist@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1430478517-15601-1-git-send-email-ishubist@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 04:38:37PM +0530, Abhishek Bist wrote: > This is a patch which fixes memcpy warning found by a checpatch.pl in p80211conv.c > and replaces memcpy with ether_addr_copy. How do you "know" it is safe to do this? Please prove it. > > Signed-off-by: Abhishek-Bist Your From: name and this name do not match :( thanks, greg k-h