Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> When the error check in ath9k_hw_read_revisions() was added, it checked for
>> -EIO which is what ath9k_regread() in the ath9k_htc driver uses. However,
>> for plain ath9k, the register read function uses ioread32(), which just
>> returns -1 on error. So if such a read fails, it still gets passed through
>> and ends up as a weird mac revision in the log output.
>>
>> Fix this by changing ath9k_regread() to return -1 on error like ioread32()
>> does, and fix the error check to look for that instead of -EIO.
>>
>> Fixes: 2f90c7e5d094 ("ath9k: Check for errors when reading SREV register")
>> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Kalle
>
> This patch is merged as "deferred" in patchwork - what's up with that?
Just lack of time on my part. Reviewed-by tags would help a lot :)
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