Patch "staging: wilc1000: Fix endian sparse warning" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: wilc1000: Fix endian sparse warning

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
staging-wilc1000-fix-endian-sparse-warning.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Mike Kofron <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:35:48 -0500
Subject: staging: wilc1000: Fix endian sparse warning

From: Mike Kofron <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 94500d5667386119c27725fe314f6882f68580a9 ]

drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c:995:18: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer

---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ int wilc_mac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, s
 	tx_data->skb  = skb;
 
 	eth_h = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->data);
-	if (eth_h->h_proto == 0x8e88)
+	if (eth_h->h_proto == cpu_to_be16(0x8e88))
 		netdev_dbg(ndev, "EAPOL transmitted\n");
 
 	ih = (struct iphdr *)(skb->data + sizeof(struct ethhdr));

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/staging-wilc1000-fix-endian-sparse-warning.patch