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

phylink: ensure the PHY interface mode is appropriately set

to the 4.14-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: phylink-ensure-the-phy-interface-mode-is-appropriately-set.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Dec 31 11:12:48 CET 2017

From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:21:28 +0000 Subject: phylink: ensure the PHY interface mode is appropriately set

From: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk

[ Upstream commit 182088aa3c6c7f7c20a2c1dcc9ded4a3fc631f38 ]

When setting the ethtool settings, ensure that the validated PHY interface mode is propagated to the current link settings, so that 2500BaseX can be selected.

Fixes: 9525ae83959b ("phylink: add phylink infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Russell King rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phylink.c @@ -948,6 +948,7 @@ int phylink_ethtool_ksettings_set(struct mutex_lock(&pl->state_mutex); /* Configure the MAC to match the new settings */ linkmode_copy(pl->link_config.advertising, our_kset.link_modes.advertising); + pl->link_config.interface = config.interface; pl->link_config.speed = our_kset.base.speed; pl->link_config.duplex = our_kset.base.duplex; pl->link_config.an_enabled = our_kset.base.autoneg != AUTONEG_DISABLE;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk are

queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-the-phy-interface-mode-is-appropriately-set.patch queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-an-is-enabled.patch