[PATCH] libertas: fix memory alignment problems on the blackfin

[Ihar Hrachyshka]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes at sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 23:03 +0300, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Holger Schurig
>> <hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de> wrote:
>> >> Fixing unaligned memory access on the blackfin architecture
>> >> (maybe on the ARM also).
>> >
>> > You can delete the "maybe", on ARM (more specificially, on a
>> > PXA255, which is ARMv5TE) I didn't had a problem.
>>
>> Ok, just blackfin. Is it a joke or should I resend the patch with
>> another description?..
>
> I'm sure arm has that problem too and sparc and others, but it may not
> always show up because the frame might actually be aligned sometimes.
>
> OTOH, why are you getting unaligned frames in the first place? This is
> the beacon interval, so it's at a fixed modulo-two position from the
> start of the frame.

Do you mean that we should add __attribute__ ((aligned (2))) for our
'bss_descriptor' structure definition rather align particular fields
at runtime?

>
> johannes
>