[U-Boot] [PATCH] usb: fix unaligned access in device_qual()

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

Hi Albert,

On 06/27/2013 12:11 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>> while playing with dfu, I tapped in an unaligned access
>> when doing on the host side a "lsusb -d [vendornr]: -v"
>> I get on the board:
>>
>> GADGET DRIVER: usb_dnl_dfu
>> data abort
>>
>>     MAYBE you should read doc/README.arm-unaligned-accesses
>>
>> pc : [<8ff71db8>]          lr : [<8ff75aec>]
>> sp : 8ef40d18  ip : 00000005     fp : 00000000
>> r10: 00000000  r9 : 47401410     r8 : 8ef40f38
>> r7 : 8ef4aae8  r6 : 0000000a     r5 : 8ef4ab28  r4 : 8ef4ab80
>> r3 : 0000000a  r2 : 00000006     r1 : 00000006  r0 : 8ef4aae8
>> Flags: Nzcv  IRQs off  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32
>> Resetting CPU ...
>>
>> reason is that in the "struct usb_composite_dev" the
>> "struct usb_device_descriptor desc;" is on an odd address,
>> and this struct gets accessed in
>> drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c device_qual()
>>
>> Fix it, by align this var "struct desc" fix to an aligned
>> address.
> 
> Please keep the commit message to a minimum -- what is wrong and how it
> is fixed -- and move the rest (context and additional details) after
> the commit message separator ('---' below).

I personally find this expanded description quite helpful. Everything
below the "---" line is removed from the git history. So +1 for this
expanded description from me.

Thanks,
Stefan