The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree. I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst. I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 8593b18ad348733b5d5ddfa0c79dcabf51dff308 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Crispin <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:29:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: pci: Remove KERN_WARN instance inside the mt7620 driver Switch the printk() call to the prefered pr_warn() api. Fixes: 7e5873d3755c ("MIPS: pci: Add MT7620a PCIE driver") Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.5+ Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15321/ Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c b/arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c index 22e4c22e750b..1a0b80a1cc4a 100644 --- a/arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c +++ b/arch/mips/pci/pci-mt7620.c @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int wait_pciephy_busy(void) else break; if (retry++ > WAITRETRY_MAX) { - printk(KERN_WARN "PCIE-PHY retry failed.\n"); + pr_warn("PCIE-PHY retry failed.\n"); return -1; } }