From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antoine Tenart Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:39:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20180919093933.24411-1-antoine.tenart@bootlin.com> Cc: Antoine Tenart , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com, gregory.clement@bootlin.com, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, nadavh@marvell.com, stefanc@marvell.com, ymarkman@marvell.com, mw@semihalf.com To: davem@davemloft.net, linux@armlinux.org.uk, andrew@lunn.ch, f.fainelli@gmail.com Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Russell, Following the discussion we had regarding the phylink issue related to the carrier link state not being off when starting phylink, I sent a fix patch a few days ago for the PPv2 driver: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/14/633 The idea was to send a patch which could go to the stable branches, but a better solution would be to directly call netif_carrier_off() from within phylink_start(). This is the aim of this series. Thanks! Antoine Antoine Tenart (3): net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink net: mvpp2: do not explicitly set the carrier state in open net: mvneta: do not explicitly set the carrier state in open drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 3 --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c | 1 - drivers/net/phy/phylink.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1