Re: [PATCH] dvb-usb: unaligned

[Al Viro]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:42:46PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 01:33 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-firmware.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-firmware.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-firmware.c
> > index e1112e3..733a7ff 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-firmware.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-firmware.c
> > @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ int dvb_usb_get_hexline(const struct firmware *fw, struct hexline *hx,
> >  	if ((*pos + hx->len + 4) >= fw->size)
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  
> > -	hx->addr = le16_to_cpu( *((u16 *) &b[1]) );
> > +	hx->addr = b[1] | (b[2] << 8);
> 
> ???hx->addr = get_unaligned_le16(&b[1]);

Again, what's the benefit?  Having a function doesn't mean that we need
to use it religiously - if it doesn't make things more clear...
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