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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Staging: rtl8192u: r8192U_core.c: Replace memcpy with eth_addr_copy

From Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/3] Staging: rtl8192u: r8192U_core.c: Replace memcpy with eth_addr_copy
Date 2015-09-06 21:40 +0200
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On 09/06/2015 02:04 PM, Shraddha Barke wrote:
> This patch replaces memcpy with eth_addr_copy
>
> The changes were applied using the following coccinelle
> rule:
> @@ expression e1, e2; @@
> - memcpy(e1, e2, ETH_ALEN);
> + ether_addr_copy(e1, e2);
>
> Signed-off-by: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
> index 6f6fe38..577d3a4 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
> @@ -3430,7 +3430,7 @@ static int r8192_set_mac_adr(struct net_device *dev, void *mac)
>
>   	down(&priv->wx_sem);
>
> -	memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN);
> +	ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data);
>
>   	schedule_work(&priv->reset_wq);
>   	up(&priv->wx_sem);
>

This patch has the same problems as do both patches 1 and 2.

NACK.

Larry

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[PATCH 3/3] Staging: rtl8192u: r8192U_core.c: Replace memcpy with eth_addr_copy Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/3] Staging: rtl8192u: r8192U_core.c: Replace memcpy with  eth_addr_copy Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> - 2015-09-06 21:40 +0200

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