This driver requires a checksum for the descriptors so that the wifi chip is assured that the USB transmission was correct. These entries are little-endian, but the driver was always using cpu order in the calculation. As a result, the driver failed on BE hardware.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]> Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]> --- V2 - No functional changes. Merge conflict resolved. --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c index 6da6e2a..1611e42 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/trx.c @@ -477,14 +477,14 @@ static void _rtl_fill_usb_tx_desc(u8 *txdesc) */ static void _rtl_tx_desc_checksum(u8 *txdesc) { - u16 *ptr = (u16 *)txdesc; + __le16 *ptr = (__le16 *)txdesc; u16 checksum = 0; u32 index; /* Clear first */ SET_TX_DESC_TX_DESC_CHECKSUM(txdesc, 0); for (index = 0; index < 16; index++) - checksum = checksum ^ (*(ptr + index)); + checksum = checksum ^ le16_to_cpu(*(ptr + index)); SET_TX_DESC_TX_DESC_CHECKSUM(txdesc, checksum); } -- 2.10.2
