linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] etherdevice: Add ether_addr_copy

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Message-Id: <20150420.141914.1605864056122893264.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mateusz.kulikowski@...il.com
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, dan.carpenter@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] etherdevice: Add ether_addr_copy_unaligned

From: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:39:37 +0200

> Some drivers require copying unaligned ethernet addresses.
> Using memcpy() causes checkpatch warnings and may cause
> regressions (someone will "fix" alignment of packed structure)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@...il.com>

I'd rather see something like this submitted in a patch series alongside
some actual uses.

So I'm tossing this for now.
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