This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ixgbe: do not disable FEC from the driver
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:
ixgbe-do-not-disable-fec-from-the-driver.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 foo@baz Sun Nov 19 12:02:55 CET 2017
From: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:01:48 -0700
Subject: ixgbe: do not disable FEC from the driver
From: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1fe954b2097bb907b4578e6a74e4c1d23785a601 ]
FEC is configured by the NVM and the driver should not be
overriding it.
Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c
@@ -1643,8 +1643,6 @@ static s32 ixgbe_setup_kr_speed_x550em(s
return status;
reg_val |= IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_ENABLE;
- reg_val &= ~(IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_FEC_REQ |
- IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_FEC);
reg_val &= ~(IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_KR |
IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_KX);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from emil.s.tantilov@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/ixgbe-handle-close-suspend-race-with-netif_device_detach-present.patch
queue-4.4/ixgbe-do-not-disable-fec-from-the-driver.patch
queue-4.4/ixgbe-fix-aer-error-handling.patch
queue-4.4/ixgbe-add-mask-for-64-rss-queues.patch