[PATCH] libertas: fix memory alignment problems on the blackfin

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu Jul 10 07:29:45 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:29 +0300, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
> > There's helpers for this now: get_unaligned_le16
> Ok, third pass - the first was in January... :)
> 
> Fixing unaligned memory access on the blackfin architecture (maybe on
> the ARM also).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ihar Hrachyshka <ihar.hrachyshka at promwad.com>

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>

> ---
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
> index 343ed38..4b27456 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c
> @@ -567,11 +567,11 @@ static int lbs_process_bss(struct bss_descriptor *bss,
> 	pos += 8;
> 
> 	/* beacon interval is 2 bytes long */
> -	bss->beaconperiod = le16_to_cpup((void *) pos);
> +	bss->beaconperiod = get_unaligned_le16(pos);
> 	pos += 2;
> 
> 	/* capability information is 2 bytes long */
> -	bss->capability = le16_to_cpup((void *) pos);
> +	bss->capability = get_unaligned_le16(pos);
> 	lbs_deb_scan("process_bss: capabilities 0x%04x\n", bss->capability);
> 	pos += 2;
> 
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