Re: [PATCH] staging/iio/meter: fix the coding style problem

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>]

On 4/30/2012 9:01 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 04/30/2012 09:26 PM, joseph daniel wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: joseph daniel<josephdanielwalter@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Hi Lars,
>> 	Thanks for review. how about the below change?
>>   drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7854-i2c.c |    6 +++++-
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7854-i2c.c b/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7854-i2c.c
>> index 1e1faa0..52bdb05 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7854-i2c.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7854-i2c.c
>> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ static int ade7854_i2c_read_reg_32(struct device *dev,
>>   {
>>   	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
>>   	struct ade7854_state *st = iio_priv(indio_dev);
>> +	uint32_t value;
>>   	int ret;
>>
>>   	mutex_lock(&st->buf_lock);
>> @@ -195,7 +196,10 @@ static int ade7854_i2c_read_reg_32(struct device *dev,
>>   	if (ret)
>>   		goto out;
>>
>> -	*val = (st->rx[0]<<  24) | (st->rx[1]<<  16) | (st->rx[2]<<  8) | st->rx[3];
>> +	memcpy(&value, st->rx, sizeof(uint32_t));
>> +
> Uhm, yes, you are right st->rx is unaligned. The memcpy is not necessary though
> if you use get_unaligned_be32. Sorry for the pointer to the wrong function.
Or we could just force the alignment of st->rx? Might not be worth 
bothering.
>
> Btw. there are a few other locations in this driver which could use the
> put_unaligned_be* and get_unaligned_be* functions. Would be great if you could
> convert these as well.
>
>> +	*val = be32_to_cpu(value);
>> +
>>   out:
>>   	mutex_unlock(&st->buf_lock);
>>   	return ret;