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 3.18-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: net-mvneta-clear-interface-link-status-on-port-disable.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4423c18e466afdfb02a36ee8b9f901d144b3c607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yelena Krivosheev <yelena@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:59:45 +0100 Subject: net: mvneta: clear interface link status on port disable From: Yelena Krivosheev <yelena@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: add fixes tag] Fixes: c5aff18204da ("net: mvneta: driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP network unit") Signed-off-by: Yelena Krivosheev <yelena@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Dmitri Epshtein <dima@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 @@ -851,6 +851,10 @@ 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@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/net-mvneta-clear-interface-link-status-on-port-disable.patch