This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: stmmac: dwmac-sun8i: use return val of readl_poll_timeout() to the 5.16-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: net-stmmac-dwmac-sun8i-use-return-val-of-readl_poll_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0aa123fddc0c75bfacc981cf6fe35e85f4a74752 Author: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 27 00:52:15 2022 +0800 net: stmmac: dwmac-sun8i: use return val of readl_poll_timeout() [ Upstream commit 9e0db41e7a0b6f1271cbcfb16dbf5b8641b4e440 ] When readl_poll_timeout() timeout, we'd better directly use its return value. Before this patch: [ 2.145528] dwmac-sun8i: probe of 4500000.ethernet failed with error -14 After this patch: [ 2.138520] dwmac-sun8i: probe of 4500000.ethernet failed with error -110 Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c index 617d0e4c64958..09644ab0d87a7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-sun8i.c @@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ static int sun8i_dwmac_reset(struct stmmac_priv *priv) if (err) { dev_err(priv->device, "EMAC reset timeout\n"); - return -EFAULT; + return err; } return 0; }