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 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

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-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Feb 7 11:29:33 PST 2018

From: Chunhao Lin hau@realtek.com Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 01:32:36 +0800 Subject: r8169: fix RTL8168EP take too long to complete driver initialization.

From: Chunhao Lin hau@realtek.com

[ 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@realtek.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- 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 @@ -1395,7 +1395,7 @@ 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 rtl8168ep_stop_cmac(struct rtl8169_private *tp) @@ -1403,7 +1403,7 @@ static void rtl8168ep_stop_cmac(struct r 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); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hau@realtek.com are

queue-4.15/r8169-fix-rtl8168ep-take-too-long-to-complete-driver-initialization.patch