This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bnxt_en: Failure to update PHY is not fatal condition. 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: bnxt_en-failure-to-update-phy-is-not-fatal-condition.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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ba41d46fe03223279054e58d570069fdc62fb768 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 19:43:21 -0500 Subject: bnxt_en: Failure to update PHY is not fatal condition. From: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ba41d46fe03223279054e58d570069fdc62fb768 upstream. If we fail to update the PHY, we should print a warning and continue. The current code to exit is buggy as it has not freed up the NIC resources yet. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c @@ -4623,7 +4623,7 @@ static int __bnxt_open_nic(struct bnxt * if (link_re_init) { rc = bnxt_update_phy_setting(bp); if (rc) - goto open_err; + netdev_warn(bp->dev, "failed to update phy settings\n"); } if (irq_re_init) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/bnxt_en-failure-to-update-phy-is-not-fatal-condition.patch