Patch "net: bgmac: Remove superflous netif_carrier_on()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "net: bgmac: Remove superflous netif_carrier_on()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    net: bgmac: Remove superflous netif_carrier_on()

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:
     net-bgmac-remove-superflous-netif_carrier_on.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 3894396e64994f31c3ef5c7e6f63dded0593e567 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:25:33 -0700
Subject: net: bgmac: Remove superflous netif_carrier_on()

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

commit 3894396e64994f31c3ef5c7e6f63dded0593e567 upstream.

bgmac_open() calls phy_start() to initialize the PHY state machine,
which will set the interface's carrier state accordingly, no need to
force that as this could be conflicting with the PHY state determined by
PHYLIB.

Fixes: dd4544f05469 ("bgmac: driver for GBit MAC core on BCMA bus")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c
@@ -1308,8 +1308,6 @@ static int bgmac_open(struct net_device
 
 	phy_start(bgmac->phy_dev);
 
-	netif_carrier_on(net_dev);
-
 	netif_start_queue(net_dev);
 
 	return 0;


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

queue-4.4/net-korina-fix-napi-versus-resources-freeing.patch
queue-4.4/arm-dts-bcm5301x-correct-gic_ppi-interrupt-flags.patch
queue-4.4/net-bgmac-start-transmit-queue-in-bgmac_open.patch
queue-4.4/net-bgmac-fix-sof-bit-checking.patch
queue-4.4/net-bgmac-remove-superflous-netif_carrier_on.patch