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

net: phy: fix phy_start to consider PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT

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: net-phy-fix-phy_start-to-consider-phy_ignore_interrupt.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 Tue Mar 6 19:02:12 PST 2018

From: Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 21:01:48 +0100 Subject: net: phy: fix phy_start to consider PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT

From: Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit 08f5138512180a479ce6b9d23b825c9f4cd3be77 ]

This condition wasn't adjusted when PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT (-2) was added long ago. In case of PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT the MAC interrupt indicates also PHY state changes and we should do what the symbol says.

Fixes: 84a527a41f38 ("net: phylib: fix interrupts re-enablement in phy_start") Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit hkallweit1@gmail.com 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/phy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ void phy_start(struct phy_device *phydev break; case PHY_HALTED: /* make sure interrupts are re-enabled for the PHY */ - if (phydev->irq != PHY_POLL) { + if (phy_interrupt_is_valid(phydev)) { err = phy_enable_interrupts(phydev); if (err < 0) break;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hkallweit1@gmail.com are

queue-4.14/net-phy-fix-phy_start-to-consider-phy_ignore_interrupt.patch