This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled eth: fec: Fix lost promiscuous mode after reconnecting cable to the 3.13-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: eth-fec-fix-lost-promiscuous-mode-after-reconnecting-cable.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.13 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 Apr 10 22:03:04 PDT 2014 From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:28:19 +0100 Subject: eth: fec: Fix lost promiscuous mode after reconnecting cable From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 84fe61821e4ebab6322eeae3f3c27f77f0031978 ] If the Freescale fec is in promiscuous mode and network cable is reconnected then the promiscuous mode get lost. The problem is caused by a too soon call of set_multicast_list to re-enable promisc mode. The FEC_R_CNTRL register changes are overwritten by fec_restart. This patch fixes this by moving the call behind the init of FEC_R_CNTRL register in fec_restart. Successful tested on a i.MX28 board. Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c @@ -528,13 +528,6 @@ fec_restart(struct net_device *ndev, int /* Clear any outstanding interrupt. */ writel(0xffc00000, fep->hwp + FEC_IEVENT); - /* Setup multicast filter. */ - set_multicast_list(ndev); -#ifndef CONFIG_M5272 - writel(0, fep->hwp + FEC_HASH_TABLE_HIGH); - writel(0, fep->hwp + FEC_HASH_TABLE_LOW); -#endif - /* Set maximum receive buffer size. */ writel(PKT_MAXBLR_SIZE, fep->hwp + FEC_R_BUFF_SIZE); @@ -655,6 +648,13 @@ fec_restart(struct net_device *ndev, int writel(rcntl, fep->hwp + FEC_R_CNTRL); + /* Setup multicast filter. */ + set_multicast_list(ndev); +#ifndef CONFIG_M5272 + writel(0, fep->hwp + FEC_HASH_TABLE_HIGH); + writel(0, fep->hwp + FEC_HASH_TABLE_LOW); +#endif + if (id_entry->driver_data & FEC_QUIRK_ENET_MAC) { /* enable ENET endian swap */ ecntl |= (1 << 8); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.13/eth-fec-fix-lost-promiscuous-mode-after-reconnecting-cable.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