Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2007 19:38 schrieb Pete Zaitcev:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:59:41 +0100, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > +           case USB_CDC_DMM_TYPE:
> > +                   maxcom = le16_to_cpu(*((u16 *)(buffer + 5)));
> 
> What an atrocious way to program. If you insist on saving a few instructions
> by not using buffer[6]<<8|buffer[5], at least put get_unaligned in there.

Thanks for noticing the unaligned pointer. I consider this the clean way of
doing this. I want to do an endianness correct access and thus I specify
that by using the function that is very clearly named instead of some unclear
biitshifts. A few instructions are not an issue in probe().

        Regards
                Oliver

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