Re: [PATCH] fix sierra_net endianess bug

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 16:26 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Maris Paupe <marisp@xxxxx> writes:
> 
> > I have found that sierra_net does not work properly on big-endian
> > systems, it works if bytes are flipped in this particular location.
> 
> That should probably be fixed in sierra_net_get_fw_attr (and the author
> of sierra_net_get_fw_attr should be hit with a cluestick to not use
> kmalloc for allocating a single u16).

You cannot use stack buffers for DMA, which includes all USB I/O.

Ben.

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