On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:18:46AM +, Paul Brook wrote:
> > That's the '&' which is wrong here. The string can be accessed with
> > *((uint32_t *)devid). So you can simply use:
> >
> > ret = le32_to_cpu(*((uint32_t *)devid))
>
> No you can't. Even ignoring the aliasing violation, devid
> That's the '&' which is wrong here. The string can be accessed with
> *((uint32_t *)devid). So you can simply use:
>
> ret = le32_to_cpu(*((uint32_t *)devid))
No you can't. Even ignoring the aliasing violation, devid might not be
sufficiently aligned.
Paul
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:16:25AM +0530, Vijay Kumar wrote:
> The mipsnet device returns wrong values for device ID, since it returns
> the contents of the pointer rather that the contents of the device ID
> string. Also the contents of the string is returned such that the order
> is host en
