Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] Staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_equal() over memcmp()

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 13 2015 - 01:41:23 EST


On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:19:12AM +0530, punit vara wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Punit Vara <punitvara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch is to the rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c file that fixes up following
> > warning reported by checkpatch.pl :
> >
> > -Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()
> >
> > bssid and pnetwork->network.MacAddress both are 6 byte
> > array which aligned with u16
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Punit Vara <punitvara@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> > index 143be0f..b19556a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> > @@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ static int r871x_get_ap_info(struct net_device *dev,
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
> > netdev_info(dev, "r8712u: BSSID:%pM\n", bssid);
> > - if (!memcmp(bssid, pnetwork->network.MacAddress, ETH_ALEN)) {
> > + if (ether_addr_equal(bssid, pnetwork->network.MacAddress)) {
> > /* BSSID match, then check if supporting wpa/wpa2 */
> > pbuf = r8712_get_wpa_ie(&pnetwork->network.IEs[12],
> > &wpa_ielen, pnetwork->network.IELength-12);
> > --
> > 2.5.3
> >
>
> I have updated the patch as per feedback from various developers. As I
> am sending second time subject should be patch v2 right ?

Please resend the whole series please.
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