Re: [PATCH] Fix an inproper alignment accessing in irda protocol stack

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: "Luke Yang" <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 11:45:06 +0800

>         /* Construct new discovery info to be used by IrLAP, */
> -       u16ho(irlmp->discovery_cmd.data.hints) = irlmp->hints.word;
> +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN
> +       irlmp->discovery_cmd.data.hints[0] = irlmp->hints.word & 0xff;
> +       irlmp->discovery_cmd.data.hints[1] = (irlmp->hints.word & 0xff00) >> 8;
> +#else /* ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN */
> +       irlmp->discovery_cmd.data.hints[0] = (irlmp->hints.word & 0xff00) >> 8;
> +       irlmp->discovery_cmd.data.hints[1] = irlmp->hints.word & 0xff;
> +#endif

Please don't add ugly ifdefs, they are not necessary.

You can use the le16_to_cpu() macro on the hints.word datum,
then pick out the byte you need, as necessary.  That way you
don't need to use ifdefs.

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