This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    hwmon: (f75375s) Fix bit shifting in f75375_write16

to the 3.2-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:
     hwmon-f75375s-fix-bit-shifting-in-f75375_write16.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From eb2f255b2d360df3f500042a2258dcf2fcbe89a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolaus Schulz <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:56:10 +0100
Subject: hwmon: (f75375s) Fix bit shifting in f75375_write16

From: Nikolaus Schulz <[email protected]>

commit eb2f255b2d360df3f500042a2258dcf2fcbe89a2 upstream.

In order to extract the high byte of the 16-bit word, shift the word to
the right, not to the left.

Signed-off-by: Nikolaus Schulz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/hwmon/f75375s.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/hwmon/f75375s.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/f75375s.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ static inline void f75375_write8(struct
 static inline void f75375_write16(struct i2c_client *client, u8 reg,
                u16 value)
 {
-       int err = i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(client, reg, (value << 8));
+       int err = i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(client, reg, (value >> 8));
        if (err)
                return;
        i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(client, reg + 1, (value & 0xFF));


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.2/hwmon-f75375s-fix-bit-shifting-in-f75375_write16.patch
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