This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: phy: fix phy_start to consider PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT to the 4.9-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-phy-fix-phy_start-to-consider-phy_ignore_interrupt.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Thu Mar 8 06:55:02 PST 2018 From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 21:01:48 +0100 Subject: net: phy: fix phy_start to consider PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 08f5138512180a479ce6b9d23b825c9f4cd3be77 ] This condition wasn't adjusted when PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT (-2) was added long ago. In case of PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT the MAC interrupt indicates also PHY state changes and we should do what the symbol says. Fixes: 84a527a41f38 ("net: phylib: fix interrupts re-enablement in phy_start") Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ void phy_start(struct phy_device *phydev break; case PHY_HALTED: /* make sure interrupts are re-enabled for the PHY */ - if (phydev->irq != PHY_POLL) { + if (phy_interrupt_is_valid(phydev)) { err = phy_enable_interrupts(phydev); if (err < 0) break; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/net-phy-fix-phy_start-to-consider-phy_ignore_interrupt.patch