linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging : wlan-ng: fix memcpy with ether_addr

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Date:	Sun, 3 May 2015 21:54:42 +0200
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Abhishek Bist <ishubist@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, abhishek@...logic.org,
	stankus.modestas@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging : wlan-ng: fix memcpy with ether_addr_copy in
 p80211conv.c

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 <ishubist@...il.com>

Your From: name and this name do not match :(

thanks,

greg k-h
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