On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Mikhail Ulyanov
[off-list ref] wrote:

+static void put_short_be(unsigned long *p, u16 v)
+{
+       u16 *addr = (u16 *)*p;
+
+       *addr = cpu_to_be16(v);
+       *p += 2;
+}
+
+static void put_word_be(unsigned long *p, u32 v)
+{
+       u32 *addr = (u32 *)*p;
+
+       *addr = cpu_to_be32(v);
+       *p += 4;
+}

Is the address in *p guaranteed to be aligned to 2 resp. 4  bytes?

If not, you can use put_unaligned*().

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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