This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ath9k_htc: Fix an endian issue
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ath9k_htc-fix-an-endian-issue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 2c27392dc4d4f5ee8a3967a520b8f6cac0418031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sujith Manoharan <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:23:52 +0530
Subject: ath9k_htc: Fix an endian issue
From: Sujith Manoharan <[email protected]>
commit 2c27392dc4d4f5ee8a3967a520b8f6cac0418031 upstream.
The stream length/tag fields have to be in little endian
format. Fixing this makes the driver work on big-endian
platforms.
Tested-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c
@@ -210,8 +210,9 @@ static int __hif_usb_tx(struct hif_devic
struct tx_buf *tx_buf = NULL;
struct sk_buff *nskb = NULL;
int ret = 0, i;
- u16 *hdr, tx_skb_cnt = 0;
+ u16 tx_skb_cnt = 0;
u8 *buf;
+ __le16 *hdr;
if (hif_dev->tx.tx_skb_cnt == 0)
return 0;
@@ -236,9 +237,9 @@ static int __hif_usb_tx(struct hif_devic
buf = tx_buf->buf;
buf += tx_buf->offset;
- hdr = (u16 *)buf;
- *hdr++ = nskb->len;
- *hdr++ = ATH_USB_TX_STREAM_MODE_TAG;
+ hdr = (__le16 *)buf;
+ *hdr++ = cpu_to_le16(nskb->len);
+ *hdr++ = cpu_to_le16(ATH_USB_TX_STREAM_MODE_TAG);
buf += 4;
memcpy(buf, nskb->data, nskb->len);
tx_buf->len = nskb->len + 4;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-2.6.37/ath9k_htc-fix-an-endian-issue.patch
_______________________________________________
stable mailing list
[email protected]
http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
