Patch "sh_eth: Use platform device for printing before register_netdev()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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 4.4-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:
sh_eth-use-platform-device-for-printing-before-register_netdev.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 15:01:34 +0200
Subject: sh_eth: Use platform device for printing before register_netdev()

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

[ 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

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -3222,7 +3222,7 @@ 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 [email protected] are

queue-4.4/serial-sh-sci-fix-race-condition-causing-garbage-during-shutdown.patch queue-4.4/sh_eth-use-platform-device-for-printing-before-register_netdev.patch