r8192e_pci driver broken 3.14+

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Apr 18 18:01:24 UTC 2014


On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 01:36:19PM -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> Commit 198e0d17c on November 2 by Rashika Kheria breaks the r8192e_pci
> driver on my laptop. The bulk of the commit is fine. It is just the
> following change that causes grief:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c
> index 3183627..7796488 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ inline int rtllib_put_snap(u8 *data, u16 h_proto)
> 	snap->oui[1] = oui[1];
> 	snap->oui[2] = oui[2];
> 
> -	*(u16 *)(data + SNAP_SIZE) = htons(h_proto);
> +	*(u16 *)(data + SNAP_SIZE) = h_proto;
> 
> 	return SNAP_SIZE + sizeof(u16);
>  }
> 
> I am not sure what platform this was tested on, but I believe for any
> little endian machine the htons() is required. Reverting this part of
> the commit gets me a working driver. I sent this email using it ;)
> 
> Sorry it took so long to report, I don't really use the wireless in
> the winter.

Can you send a patch that fixes this up properly?

thanks,

greg k-h


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