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

net: mvneta: clear interface link status on port disable

to the 4.9-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-mvneta-clear-interface-link-status-on-port-disable.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 4423c18e466afdfb02a36ee8b9f901d144b3c607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:59:45 +0100 Subject: net: mvneta: clear interface link status on port disable

From: Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com

commit 4423c18e466afdfb02a36ee8b9f901d144b3c607 upstream.

When port connect to PHY in polling mode (with poll interval 1 sec), port and phy link status must be synchronize in order don't loss link change event.

[gregory.clement@free-electrons.com: add fixes tag] Fixes: c5aff18204da ("net: mvneta: driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP network unit") Signed-off-by: Yelena Krivosheev yelena@marvell.com Tested-by: Dmitri Epshtein dima@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement@free-electrons.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c @@ -1182,6 +1182,10 @@ static void mvneta_port_disable(struct m val &= ~MVNETA_GMAC0_PORT_ENABLE; mvreg_write(pp, MVNETA_GMAC_CTRL_0, val);

+ pp->link = 0; + pp->duplex = -1; + pp->speed = 0; + udelay(200); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yelena@marvell.com are

queue-4.9/net-mvneta-eliminate-wrong-call-to-handle-rx-descriptor-error.patch queue-4.9/net-mvneta-clear-interface-link-status-on-port-disable.patch queue-4.9/net-mvneta-use-proper-rxq_number-in-loop-on-rx-queues.patch