This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [PATCH 058/135] qeth: initialize net_device with carrier off 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: 0058-qeth-initialize-net_device-with-carrier-off.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 9c19e97673f6e6644b6236d8f5c40b8d5eb37ad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:27:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 058/135] qeth: initialize net_device with carrier off [ Upstream commit e5ebe63214d44d4dcf43df02edf3613e04d671b9 ] /sys/class/net/<interface>/operstate for an active qeth network interface offen shows "unknown", which translates to "state UNKNOWN in output of "ip link show". It is caused by a missing initialization of the __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER bit in the net_device state field. This patch adds a netif_carrier_off() invocation when creating the net_device for a qeth device. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reference-ID: Bugzilla 133209 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c | 1 + drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c @@ -1127,6 +1127,7 @@ static int qeth_l2_setup_netdev(struct q qeth_l2_request_initial_mac(card); SET_NETDEV_DEV(card->dev, &card->gdev->dev); netif_napi_add(card->dev, &card->napi, qeth_l2_poll, QETH_NAPI_WEIGHT); + netif_carrier_off(card->dev); return register_netdev(card->dev); } --- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c @@ -3220,6 +3220,7 @@ static int qeth_l3_setup_netdev(struct q SET_NETDEV_DEV(card->dev, &card->gdev->dev); netif_napi_add(card->dev, &card->napi, qeth_l3_poll, QETH_NAPI_WEIGHT); + netif_carrier_off(card->dev); return register_netdev(card->dev); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/0058-qeth-initialize-net_device-with-carrier-off.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html