Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_equal() over memcmp()

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:19:12AM +0530, punit vara wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Punit Vara <punitvara@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 and pnetwork->network.MacAddress both are 6 byte
> > array which aligned with u16
> >
> > 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 143be0f..b19556a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> > @@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ 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.MacAddress)) {
> >                         /* 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
> >
> 
> I have updated the patch as per feedback from various developers. As I
> am sending second time subject should be patch v2 right ?

Please resend the whole series please.