This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem
to the 4.4-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-rtl8712-fixed-little-endian-problem.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
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From: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:59:46 +0100
Subject: staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem
From: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 502c80744fcac6b16f28699469c70db499fe2f69 ]
Fixed a sparse warning.
Using function le16_to_cpus() to avoid double assignment.
Signed-off-by: Jannik Becher <becher.jannik@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline char *translate_scan(struc
iwe.cmd = SIOCGIWMODE;
memcpy((u8 *)&cap, r8712_get_capability_from_ie(pnetwork->network.IEs),
2);
- cap = le16_to_cpu(cap);
+ le16_to_cpus(&cap);
if (cap & (WLAN_CAPABILITY_IBSS | WLAN_CAPABILITY_BSS)) {
if (cap & WLAN_CAPABILITY_BSS)
iwe.u.mode = (u32)IW_MODE_MASTER;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from becher.jannik@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/staging-rtl8712-fixed-little-endian-problem.patch