This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization. to the 3.18-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: r8169-fix-rtl8168ep-take-too-long-to-complete-driver-initialization.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Wed Feb 7 11:38:15 PST 2018 From: Chunhao Lin <hau@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 01:32:36 +0800 Subject: r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization. From: Chunhao Lin <hau@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 086ca23d03c0d2f4088f472386778d293e15c5f6 ] Driver check the wrong register bit in rtl_ocp_tx_cond() that keep driver waiting until timeout. Fix this by waiting for the right register bit. Signed-off-by: Chunhao Lin <hau@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c @@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ DECLARE_RTL_COND(rtl_ocp_tx_cond) { void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr; - return RTL_R8(IBISR0) & 0x02; + return RTL_R8(IBISR0) & 0x20; } static void rtl8168dp_driver_start(struct rtl8169_private *tp) @@ -1421,7 +1421,7 @@ static void rtl8168ep_driver_stop(struct void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr; RTL_W8(IBCR2, RTL_R8(IBCR2) & ~0x01); - rtl_msleep_loop_wait_low(tp, &rtl_ocp_tx_cond, 50, 2000); + rtl_msleep_loop_wait_high(tp, &rtl_ocp_tx_cond, 50, 2000); RTL_W8(IBISR0, RTL_R8(IBISR0) | 0x20); RTL_W8(IBCR0, RTL_R8(IBCR0) & ~0x01); ocp_write(tp, 0x01, 0x180, OOB_CMD_DRIVER_STOP); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hau@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/r8169-fix-rtl8168ep-take-too-long-to-complete-driver-initialization.patch