This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pata_scc: propagate return value of scc_wait_after_reset to the 3.14-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: pata_scc-propagate-return-value-of-scc_wait_after_reset.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4dc7c76cd500fa78c64adfda4b070b870a2b993c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 20:00:09 +0530 Subject: pata_scc: propagate return value of scc_wait_after_reset From: Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@xxxxxxxxx> commit 4dc7c76cd500fa78c64adfda4b070b870a2b993c upstream. scc_bus_softreset not necessarily should return zero. Propagate the error code. Signed-off-by: Arjun Sreedharan <arjun024@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/pata_scc.c | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/ata/pata_scc.c +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_scc.c @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ static int scc_wait_after_reset(struct a * Note: Original code is ata_bus_softreset(). */ -static unsigned int scc_bus_softreset(struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int devmask, +static int scc_bus_softreset(struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int devmask, unsigned long deadline) { struct ata_ioports *ioaddr = &ap->ioaddr; @@ -600,9 +600,7 @@ static unsigned int scc_bus_softreset(st udelay(20); out_be32(ioaddr->ctl_addr, ap->ctl); - scc_wait_after_reset(&ap->link, devmask, deadline); - - return 0; + return scc_wait_after_reset(&ap->link, devmask, deadline); } /** @@ -619,7 +617,8 @@ static int scc_softreset(struct ata_link { struct ata_port *ap = link->ap; unsigned int slave_possible = ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_SLAVE_POSS; - unsigned int devmask = 0, err_mask; + unsigned int devmask = 0; + int rc; u8 err; DPRINTK("ENTER\n"); @@ -635,9 +634,9 @@ static int scc_softreset(struct ata_link /* issue bus reset */ DPRINTK("about to softreset, devmask=%x\n", devmask); - err_mask = scc_bus_softreset(ap, devmask, deadline); - if (err_mask) { - ata_port_err(ap, "SRST failed (err_mask=0x%x)\n", err_mask); + rc = scc_bus_softreset(ap, devmask, deadline); + if (rc) { + ata_port_err(ap, "SRST failed (err_mask=0x%x)\n", rc); return -EIO; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arjun024@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/pata_scc-propagate-return-value-of-scc_wait_after_reset.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