Broken __get_unaligned from <asm-generic/unaligned.h>

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

__get_unaligned can't cope with const-qualified types:

drivers/char/vc_screen.c: In function 'vcs_write':
drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val'
drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val'
drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val'
drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val'

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>

--- linux-2.6.14/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h.~1~	2005-10-28 02:02:08.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.14/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h	2005-11-10 14:37:58.356107194 +0100
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static inline void __ustw(__u16 val, __u
 
 #define __get_unaligned(ptr, size) ({		\
 	const void *__gu_p = ptr;		\
-	__typeof__(*(ptr)) val;			\
+	unsigned long val;			\
 	switch (size) {				\
 	case 1:					\
 		val = *(const __u8 *)__gu_p;	\
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static inline void __ustw(__u16 val, __u
 	default:				\
 		bad_unaligned_access_length();	\
 	};					\
-	val;					\
+	(__typeof__(*(ptr)))val;		\
 })
 
 #define __put_unaligned(val, ptr, size)		\

Andreas.

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