batman-adv: use ether_addr_copy instead of memcpy in multicast code
Commit Message
ether_addr_copy is supposed to be slightly more efficient for copying
mac addresses, so let's use it. This makes recent versions of checkpatch
happy, too.
Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
---
multicast.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Comments
On Monday 17 February 2014 23:12:35 Linus Lüssing wrote:
> ether_addr_copy is supposed to be slightly more efficient for copying
> mac addresses, so let's use it. This makes recent versions of checkpatch
> happy, too.
>
> Reported-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
> ---
> multicast.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
We need an introduced by line, so Antonio later knows what patches to squash
before sending them to David.
Cheers,
Marek
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int batadv_mcast_mla_softif_get(struct net_device *dev,
break;
}
- memcpy(&new->addr, &mc_list_entry->addr, ETH_ALEN);
+ ether_addr_copy(&new->addr, &mc_list_entry->addr);
hlist_add_head(&new->list, mcast_list);
ret++;
}