I'm running zd1211rw on SPARC64 and was getting a lot of "unaligned
access" messages in dmesg. I tracked the problem down to this line, and
changing the cast to a memcpy fixes the issue.
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Signed-off-by: Patrick Simmons <linuxrocks123@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c 2009-07-30
23:23:50.000000000 -0600
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c 2009-07-30
23:58:19.000000000 -0600
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
&& !mac->pass_ctrl)
return 0;
- fc = *(__le16 *)buffer;
+ memcpy(&fc,buffer,sizeof(__le16));
need_padding = ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc) ^ ieee80211_has_a4(fc);
skb = dev_alloc_skb(length + (need_padding ? 2 : 0));
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