linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 04/35] staging: rtl8192e: Mark unaligned memcpy()

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Message-ID: <20150525135500.GB11588@mwanda>
Date:	Mon, 25 May 2015 16:55:00 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, joe@...ches.com,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/35] staging: rtl8192e: Mark unaligned memcpy()

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 05:53:17PM +0200, Mateusz Kulikowski wrote:
> Comment unaligned memcpy() that trigger PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY
> checkpatch.pl warning.
> It will prevent accidential "Fix" to ether_addr_copy().
> 

Hopefully someone is going to fix those properly soon so we won't need
the comments?  Just put a FIXME in the header file instead of putting
comments everywhere the struct members are used.

regards,
dan carpenter

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