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 <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
