This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "phy: IRQ cannot be shared" to the 4.7-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: revert-phy-irq-cannot-be-shared.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Sep 21 10:05:18 CEST 2016 From: Xander Huff <xander.huff@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:47:53 -0500 Subject: Revert "phy: IRQ cannot be shared" From: Xander Huff <xander.huff@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c3e70edd7c2eed6acd234627a6007627f5c76e8e ] This reverts: commit 33c133cc7598 ("phy: IRQ cannot be shared") On hardware with multiple PHY devices hooked up to the same IRQ line, allow them to share it. Sergei Shtylyov says: "I'm not sure now what was the reason I concluded that the IRQ sharing was impossible... most probably I thought that the kernel IRQ handling code exited the loop over the IRQ actions once IRQ_HANDLED was returned -- which is obviously not so in reality..." Signed-off-by: Xander Huff <xander.huff@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nathan Sullivan <nathan.sullivan@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -722,8 +722,10 @@ phy_err: int phy_start_interrupts(struct phy_device *phydev) { atomic_set(&phydev->irq_disable, 0); - if (request_irq(phydev->irq, phy_interrupt, 0, "phy_interrupt", - phydev) < 0) { + if (request_irq(phydev->irq, phy_interrupt, + IRQF_SHARED, + "phy_interrupt", + phydev) < 0) { pr_warn("%s: Can't get IRQ %d (PHY)\n", phydev->mdio.bus->name, phydev->irq); phydev->irq = PHY_POLL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xander.huff@xxxxxx are queue-4.7/revert-phy-irq-cannot-be-shared.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