netdev - Re: Endianess bug fix for sierra

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Message-Id: <20120910.150610.41894888381057478.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:06:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bjorn@...k.no,
	linux@...rrawireless.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Endianess bug fix for sierra_net

From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
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@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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