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/)

// <smpl>
@@
identifier struct_name;
struct struct_name to;
struct struct_name from;
expression E;
@@
-memcpy(&(to), &(from), E);
+to = from;
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.se...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegar...@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c 
b/drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c
index 7bcb6b0..0945173 100644
--- a/drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c
+++ b/drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ check_device:
        }
 
 read_not_reliable:
-       memcpy(&priv->cur_fw, &new_fw, sizeof(priv->cur_fw));
+       priv->cur_fw = new_fw;
 
        /*
         * By setting BASE in cur_fw.type only after successfully loading all
-- 
1.7.4.4

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