This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: wilc1000: Fix endian sparse warning
to the 4.9-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:
staging-wilc1000-fix-endian-sparse-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 11:32:28 CET 2017
From: Mike Kofron <mpkofron@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:35:48 -0500
Subject: staging: wilc1000: Fix endian sparse warning
From: Mike Kofron <mpkofron@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 94500d5667386119c27725fe314f6882f68580a9 ]
drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c:995:18: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
Signed-off-by: Mike Kofron <mpkofron@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ int wilc_mac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, s
tx_data->skb = skb;
eth_h = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data);
- if (eth_h->h_proto == 0x8e88)
+ if (eth_h->h_proto == cpu_to_be16(0x8e88))
netdev_dbg(ndev, "EAPOL transmitted\n");
ih = (struct iphdr *)(skb->data + sizeof(struct ethhdr));
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpkofron@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/staging-wilc1000-fix-endian-sparse-warning.patch