Re: [PATCH] Remove bogus memcpy in brcm80211 ai_detach

From: Larry Finger
Date: Mon Sep 03 2012 - 15:22:44 EST


On 09/03/2012 02:13 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
gcc 4.8 warns for this memcpy. While the copy size is correct, the whole
copy seems to be a nop because the destination is never used, and
there's no need to use memcpy to copy pointers anyways. And the
type of the pointer was wrong, but at least those are always the same.

Just remove it.

Andi,

Have you compiled all of wireless with gcc 4.8? If so, can I assume that you will report warnings for other drivers?

Thanks,

Larry


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