From dde6d43d060bf0e0f38c66f76908e460db3bf0d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Hennerich, Michael" <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:41:35 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix unaligned exception in /drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c

Prevent an unaligned exception to occur.  (GCC 4.1) tmp is defined as char
pointer while it is later accessed as short.

Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
index 936c888e03e1..2a65bb93de26 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ static int determine_firmware(struct net_device *dev)
 	int err;
 	struct comp_id nic_id, sta_id;
 	unsigned int firmver;
-	char tmp[SYMBOL_MAX_VER_LEN+1];
+	char tmp[SYMBOL_MAX_VER_LEN+1] __attribute__((aligned(2)));
 
 	/* Get the hardware version */
 	err = HERMES_READ_RECORD(hw, USER_BAP, HERMES_RID_NICID, &nic_id);
-- 
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