Re: Endianess bug fix for sierra_net

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Sep 10 2012 - 15:06:07 EST


From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 18:14:02 -0400

> 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>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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