Endianess bug fix for sierra_net

From: Lennart Sorensen
Date: Fri Sep 07 2012 - 18:21:03 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c b/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c
index 7be49ea..8e22417 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ static int sierra_net_get_fw_attr(struct usbnet *dev, u16 *datap)
return -EIO;
}

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

kfree(attrdata);
return result;
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