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

ixgbe: do not disable FEC from the driver

to the 4.4-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-do-not-disable-fec-from-the-driver.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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Sun Nov 19 12:02:55 CET 2017

From: Emil Tantilov emil.s.tantilov@intel.com Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:01:48 -0700 Subject: ixgbe: do not disable FEC from the driver

From: Emil Tantilov emil.s.tantilov@intel.com

[ Upstream commit 1fe954b2097bb907b4578e6a74e4c1d23785a601 ]

FEC is configured by the NVM and the driver should not be overriding it.

Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov emil.s.tantilov@intel.com Tested-by: Krishneil Singh krishneil.k.singh@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_x550.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c @@ -1643,8 +1643,6 @@ static s32 ixgbe_setup_kr_speed_x550em(s return status;

reg_val |= IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_ENABLE; - reg_val &= ~(IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_FEC_REQ | - IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_FEC); reg_val &= ~(IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_KR | IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_KX);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emil.s.tantilov@intel.com are

queue-4.4/ixgbe-handle-close-suspend-race-with-netif_device_detach-present.patch queue-4.4/ixgbe-do-not-disable-fec-from-the-driver.patch queue-4.4/ixgbe-fix-aer-error-handling.patch queue-4.4/ixgbe-add-mask-for-64-rss-queues.patch