diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
index 5b7b4081e2c9317e41b4c0c5ef083238ded158ce..8f2091070491fce457c0e29ffb7ddcf8af61a9f5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ typedef struct hfa384x_usb_error {
 /* Unions for packaging all the known packet types together */
 
 typedef union hfa384x_usbout {
-	u16 type;
+	__le16 type;
 	hfa384x_usb_txfrm_t txfrm;
 	hfa384x_usb_cmdreq_t cmdreq;
 	hfa384x_usb_wridreq_t wridreq;
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ typedef union hfa384x_usbout {
 } __packed hfa384x_usbout_t;
 
 typedef union hfa384x_usbin {
-	u16 type;
+	__le16 type;
 	hfa384x_usb_rxfrm_t rxfrm;
 	hfa384x_usb_txfrm_t txfrm;
 	hfa384x_usb_infofrm_t infofrm;
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
index 2245339eb6a29609dbb0ba1d96dd6af7883d9e62..28cd1c4c02c8501a07a9791b9126b0a3c83f1b94 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
@@ -3346,7 +3346,7 @@ static void hfa384x_usbin_ctlx(hfa384x_t *hw, hfa384x_usbin_t *usbin,
 		if (unlocked_usbctlx_cancel_async(hw, ctlx) == 0)
 			run_queue = 1;
 	} else {
-		const u16 intype = (usbin->type & ~cpu_to_le16(0x8000));
+		const __le16 intype = (usbin->type & ~cpu_to_le16(0x8000));
 
 		/*
 		 * Check that our message is what we're expecting ...