Patch "phylink: ensure the PHY interface mode is appropriately set" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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;a=summary

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