This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

sh_eth: Use platform device for printing before register_netdev()

to the 4.9-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: sh_eth-use-platform-device-for-printing-before-register_netdev.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018

From: Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 15:01:34 +0200 Subject: sh_eth: Use platform device for printing before register_netdev()

From: Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be

[ Upstream commit 5f5c5449acad0cd3322e53e1ac68c044483b0aa5 ]

The MDIO initialization failure message is printed using the network device, before it has been registered, leading to:

(null): failed to initialise MDIO

Use the platform device instead to fix this:

sh-eth ee700000.ethernet: failed to initialise MDIO

Fixes: daacf03f0bbfefee ("sh_eth: Register MDIO bus before registering the network device") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas@glider.be Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c @@ -3133,7 +3133,7 @@ static int sh_eth_drv_probe(struct platf /* MDIO bus init */ ret = sh_mdio_init(mdp, pd); if (ret) { - dev_err(&ndev->dev, "failed to initialise MDIO\n"); + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to initialise MDIO\n"); goto out_release; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from geert+renesas@glider.be are

queue-4.9/acpi-ec-fix-debugfs_create_-usage.patch queue-4.9/serial-sh-sci-fix-race-condition-causing-garbage-during-shutdown.patch queue-4.9/clk-renesas-rcar-gen2-fix-pll0-on-r-car-v2h-and-e2.patch queue-4.9/sh_eth-use-platform-device-for-printing-before-register_netdev.patch queue-4.9/arm-dts-armadillo800eva-split-lcd-mux-and-gpio.patch