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%3Ba=su...
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@vger.kernel.org know about it.
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From: Jannik Becher becher.jannik@gmail.com Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:59:46 +0100 Subject: staging: rtl8712: fixed little endian problem
From: Jannik Becher becher.jannik@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit 502c80744fcac6b16f28699469c70db499fe2f69 ]
Fixed a sparse warning. Using function le16_to_cpus() to avoid double assignment.
Signed-off-by: Jannik Becher becher.jannik@gmail.com Tested-by: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- 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@gmail.com are
queue-4.4/staging-rtl8712-fixed-little-endian-problem.patch