[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "gpio: pca953x: Use correct u16 value for register word write" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    gpio: pca953x: Use correct u16 value for register word write

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Yong Li <sdliyong at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:49:14 +0800
Subject: gpio: pca953x: Use correct u16 value for register word write

commit 9b8e3ec34318663affced3c14d960e78d760dd9a upstream.

The current implementation only uses the first byte in val,
the second byte is always 0. Change it to use cpu_to_le16
to write the two bytes into the register

Signed-off-by: Yong Li <sdliyong at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Reid <preid at electromag.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
index 50caeb1..b46ab7c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-pca953x.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/i2c.h>
 #include <linux/platform_data/pca953x.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <asm/unaligned.h>
 #ifdef CONFIG_OF_GPIO
 #include <linux/of_platform.h>
 #endif
@@ -154,7 +155,7 @@ static int pca953x_write_regs(struct pca953x_chip *chip, int reg, u8 *val)
 		switch (chip->chip_type) {
 		case PCA953X_TYPE:
 			ret = i2c_smbus_write_word_data(chip->client,
-							reg << 1, (u16) *val);
+			    reg << 1, cpu_to_le16(get_unaligned((u16 *)val)));
 			break;
 		case PCA957X_TYPE:
 			ret = i2c_smbus_write_byte_data(chip->client, reg << 1,
--
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