netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix error checking in Vitesse IRQ config

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:57:15 -0500
From:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@...abs.org list" <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix error checking in Vitesse IRQ config


On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:35 AM, Andy Fleming wrote:

> phy_read() returns a negative number if there's an error, but the
> error-checking code in the Vitesse driver's config_intr function
> triggers if phy_read() returns non-zero.  Correct that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>

Jeff,

Can you make sure to send this to linus since its need to properly  
fix the Vitesse phy's used on the 8641HPCN and 8544 DS boards.

thanks

- k

> ---
> I made a really stupid mistake in the 4 patches I sent out,  
> earlier.  I
> thought those patches had been tested, but they hadn't been.  This one
> corrects a tiny error in the patch, and they have now been tested.   
> As before
> this change can be pulled from:
>
> http://opensource.freescale.com/pub/scm/linux-2.6-85xx.git netdev
>
> Really, REALLY sorry about that.  I have been given a paper bag of  
> appropriate
> size and shape to fit over my head.
>
>  drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c b/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> index 6a53856..8874497 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static int vsc824x_config_intr(struct  
> phy_device *phydev)
>  		 */
>  		err = phy_read(phydev, MII_VSC8244_ISTAT);
>
> -		if (err)
> +		if (err < 0)
>  			return err;
>
>  		err = phy_write(phydev, MII_VSC8244_IMASK, 0);
> -- 
> 1.5.0.2.230.gfbe3d-dirty
>
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