Oct 23 2012

[media] hdpvr: Replace memcpy with struct assignment 

Author: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>

This kind of memcpy() is error-prone. Its replacement with a struct
assignment is prefered because it's type-safe and much easier to read.
Found by coccinelle. Hand patched and reviewed.
Tested by compilation only.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// 
@@
identifier struct_name;
struct struct_name to;
struct struct_name from;
expression E;
@@
-memcpy(&(to), &(from), E);
+to = from;
// 

Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin 
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia 
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 

---
 drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-i2c.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-i2c.c b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-i2c.c
index 031cf02..6c5054f 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/hdpvr/hdpvr-i2c.c
@@ -217,8 +217,7 @@ int hdpvr_register_i2c_adapter(struct hdpvr_device *dev)
 
 	hdpvr_activate_ir(dev);
 
-	memcpy(&dev->i2c_adapter, &hdpvr_i2c_adapter_template,
-	       sizeof(struct i2c_adapter));
+	dev->i2c_adapter = hdpvr_i2c_adapter_template;
 	dev->i2c_adapter.dev.parent = &dev->udev->dev;
 
 	i2c_set_adapdata(&dev->i2c_adapter, dev);

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