This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ixgbe: Fix reporting of 100Mb capability
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: ixgbe-fix-reporting-of-100mb-capability.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 Sun Nov 19 11:32:28 CET 2017
From: Tony Nguyen anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 16:00:33 -0800 Subject: ixgbe: Fix reporting of 100Mb capability
From: Tony Nguyen anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com
[ Upstream commit f215266470dfe86196a31fe0725a86cea77f9a18 ]
BaseT adapters that are capable of supporting 100Mb are not reporting this capability. This patch corrects the reporting so that 100Mb is shown as supported on those adapters.
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com Tested-by: Andrew Bowers andrewx.bowers@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static int ixgbe_get_settings(struct net if (supported_link & IXGBE_LINK_SPEED_100_FULL) ecmd->supported |= ixgbe_isbackplane(hw->phy.media_type) ? SUPPORTED_1000baseKX_Full : - SUPPORTED_1000baseT_Full; + SUPPORTED_100baseT_Full;
/* default advertised speed if phy.autoneg_advertised isn't set */ ecmd->advertising = ecmd->supported;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com are
queue-4.9/ixgbe-reduce-i2c-retry-count-on-x550-devices.patch queue-4.9/ixgbe-fix-reporting-of-100mb-capability.patch