Hi Dan, Thank you for pointing out. I've confirmed that this error handling works well with your patch. Reviewed-by: Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thank you, On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:57:50 +0300 <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The "phy_mode" variable is an enum and in this context GCC treats it as > an unsigned int so the error handling is never triggered. > > Fixes: 4c270b55a5af ("net: ethernet: socionext: add AVE ethernet driver") > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c > index 10d0c3e478ab..d047a53f34f2 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c > @@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ static int ave_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) > > np = dev->of_node; > phy_mode = of_get_phy_mode(np); > - if (phy_mode < 0) { > + if ((int)phy_mode < 0) { > dev_err(dev, "phy-mode not found\n"); > return -EINVAL; > } > -- > 2.20.1 --- Best Regards, Kunihiko Hayashi