linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 06/35] staging: rtl8192e: Replace memcmp() with ether_addr_equal

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Message-ID: <20150525140336.GC11588@mwanda>
Date:	Mon, 25 May 2015 17:03:36 +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 06/35] staging: rtl8192e: Replace memcmp() with
 ether_addr_equal_unaligned()

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 05:53:19PM +0200, Mateusz Kulikowski wrote:
> Use dedicated macro to compare ethernet addresses in probe_rq_parse().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c
> index 8689b16..65297a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c
> @@ -1853,7 +1853,8 @@ static short probe_rq_parse(struct rtllib_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  		return -1; /* corrupted */
>  
>  	bssid_match =
> -	  (memcmp(header->addr3, ieee->current_network.bssid, ETH_ALEN) != 0) &&
> +	  (!ether_addr_equal_unaligned(header->addr3,
> +				       ieee->current_network.bssid)) &&

Isn't this aligned?

Joe, I really dread these checkpatch.pl patches.  It's the kind of thing
I hate more as time goes on and not less...

regards,
dan carpenter


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