From: Stephen Warren swarren@nvidia.com
The Linux kernel, from which checkpatch originates, contains function ether_addr_copy() to copy Ethernet MAC addresses, and checkpatch warns that it should be used in preference to memcpy() where appropriate. U-Boot doesn't contain ether_addr_copy(), so tell checkpatch not to issue this warning.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren swarren@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut marex@denx.de Acked-by: Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger@ni.com --- .checkpatch.conf | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/.checkpatch.conf b/.checkpatch.conf index 35167e12015b..d1d32fac9db5 100644 --- a/.checkpatch.conf +++ b/.checkpatch.conf @@ -21,3 +21,7 @@
# Ignore networking block comment style --ignore NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE + +# Ignore "WARNING: Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet +# addresses are __aligned(2)". +--ignore PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY