linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: slicoss: Fix prefer ether_addr

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Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:48:18 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
Cc:	'Joel Pelaez Jorge' <joelpelaez@...il.com>,
	'Greg Kroah-Hartman' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	'Rashika Kheria' <rashika.kheria@...il.com>,
	'Peter P Waskiewicz Jr' <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	'Wei Yongjun' <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>,
	'Dan Carpenter' <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: slicoss: Fix prefer ether_addr_copy over memcpy

On Tue, 2014-03-18 at 12:38 +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
> In addition to this, there are the same cases like this,
> in this file as below. Please search other same cases.
> For instance, 'grep' will be a good way to find it.
[]
> static void slic_adapter_set_hwaddr(struct adapter *adapter)
> {
>         struct sliccard *card = adapter->card;
[]
>                 if (is_zero_ether_addr(adapter->currmacaddr))
>                         memcpy(adapter->currmacaddr, adapter->macaddr,
>                                ETH_ALEN);
>                 if (adapter->netdev)
>                         memcpy(adapter->netdev->dev_addr, adapter->currmacaddr,
>                                ETH_ALEN);
>         }
> }
> 
> Joe Perches,
> These are not spotted by checkpatch.pl.
> However, after modifying it as below, checkpatch warnings are
> printed. Would you confirm it?

If it's not on a single line, checkpatch won't find it.


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