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Subject[ 25/84] sierra_net: Endianess bug fix.
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3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

[ Upstream commit 2120c52da6fe741454a60644018ad2a6abd957ac ]

I discovered I couldn't get sierra_net to work on a powerpc. Turns out
the firmware attribute check assumes the system is little endian and
hence fails because the attributes is a 16 bit value.

Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ static int sierra_net_get_fw_attr(struct
return -EIO;
}

- *datap = *attrdata;
+ *datap = le16_to_cpu(*attrdata);

kfree(attrdata);
return result;



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