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Re: [PATCH] Fix SPARC64 unaligned access in zd_mac_rx

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On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 01:59 -0600, Patrick Simmons wrote:
> 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.
>  
> -       fc = *(__le16 *)buffer;
> +       memcpy(&fc,buffer,sizeof(__le16));
>         need_padding = ieee80211_is_data_qos(fc) ^ ieee80211_has_a4(fc);

Please use get_unaligned instead.

johannes

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