This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: fec: Remove unneeded use of IS_ERR_VALUE() macro to the 4.2-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-fec-remove-unneeded-use-of-is_err_value-macro.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Nov 17 14:34:38 PST 2015 From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:10:23 -0300 Subject: net: fec: Remove unneeded use of IS_ERR_VALUE() macro From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b0c6ce24911fcb64715de9569f0f7b4f54d1d045 ] There is no need to use the IS_ERR_VALUE() macro for checking the return value from pm_runtime_* functions. Just do a simple negative test instead. The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/pm_runtime.cocci. Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c @@ -1775,7 +1775,7 @@ static int fec_enet_mdio_read(struct mii int ret = 0; ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(dev); - if (IS_ERR_VALUE(ret)) + if (ret < 0) return ret; fep->mii_timeout = 0; @@ -1814,7 +1814,7 @@ static int fec_enet_mdio_write(struct mi int ret = 0; ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(dev); - if (IS_ERR_VALUE(ret)) + if (ret < 0) return ret; fep->mii_timeout = 0; @@ -2866,7 +2866,7 @@ fec_enet_open(struct net_device *ndev) int ret; ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(&fep->pdev->dev); - if (IS_ERR_VALUE(ret)) + if (ret < 0) return ret; pinctrl_pm_select_default_state(&fep->pdev->dev); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/net-fec-remove-unneeded-use-of-is_err_value-macro.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html