From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:39:43 +0200 > 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. And, more specifically, one of the endian get_unaligned variants. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
