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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:19:38 -0700

>> No more unaligned messages - but is this an acceptable solution?
> 
> There are a bunch of macros in include/linux/unaligned/*.h to
> handle this sort of thing.

It's totally unnecessary here and it would be overkill to
use those interfaces one at a time on every struct member
when a proper memcpy() fro ma type-pruned void pointer
suffices.