Re: [PATCH] etherdevice: Add ether_addr_copy_unaligned

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Apr 20 2015 - 14:19:40 EST


From: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@xxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxx>

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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