netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 04/46] net/wireless: p54: remove useless dma_sync_single_for_device(DMA_FROM

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:15:20 -0400
From:	Pavel Roskin <proski@....org>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/46] net/wireless: p54: remove useless dma_sync_single_for_device(DMA_FROM_DEVICE)

On 07/10/2011 08:52 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> Also constify pointers used in frame parsers to verify assumptions.

Cleanups are better done separately.

> -	u16 type = le16_to_cpu(*((__le16 *)skb->data));
> +	u16 type = le16_to_cpu(*(const __le16 *)skb->data);

I think it would be more appropriate to use get_unaligned_le16() here. 
No casts should be needed then.

That's not an objection, just a suggestion :)

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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