[PATCH v2] ssb: fix unaligned access to mac address

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From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Date: 2013-02-18 20:47:56
Subsystem: sonics silicon backplane driver (ssb), the rest · Maintainers: Michael Buesch, Linus Torvalds

The mac address should be aligned to u16 to prevent an unaligned access
in drivers/ssb/pci.c where it is casted to __be16.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
---
 include/linux/ssb/ssb.h |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/ssb/ssb.h b/include/linux/ssb/ssb.h
index 22958d6..8b13222 100644
--- a/include/linux/ssb/ssb.h
+++ b/include/linux/ssb/ssb.h
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ struct ssb_sprom_core_pwr_info {
 
 struct ssb_sprom {
 	u8 revision;
-	u8 il0mac[6];		/* MAC address for 802.11b/g */
-	u8 et0mac[6];		/* MAC address for Ethernet */
-	u8 et1mac[6];		/* MAC address for 802.11a */
+	u8 il0mac[6] __aligned(sizeof(u16));	/* MAC address for 802.11b/g */
+	u8 et0mac[6] __aligned(sizeof(u16));	/* MAC address for Ethernet */
+	u8 et1mac[6] __aligned(sizeof(u16));	/* MAC address for 802.11a */
 	u8 et0phyaddr;		/* MII address for enet0 */
 	u8 et1phyaddr;		/* MII address for enet1 */
 	u8 et0mdcport;		/* MDIO for enet0 */
-- 
1.7.10.4
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