This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: phy: fix phy link up when limiting speed via device tree to the 3.14-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-link-up-when-limiting-speed-via-device-tree.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 Fri Jul 3 19:59:07 PDT 2015 From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:21:02 +0530 Subject: net: phy: fix phy link up when limiting speed via device tree From: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit eb686231fce3770299760f24fdcf5ad041f44153 ] When limiting phy link speed using "max-speed" to 100mbps or less on a giga bit phy, phy never completes auto negotiation and phy state machine is held in PHY_AN. Fixing this issue by comparing the giga bit advertise though phydev->supported doesn't have it but phy has BMSR_ESTATEN set. So that auto negotiation is restarted as old and new advertise are different and link comes up fine. Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx> 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_device.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -765,10 +765,11 @@ static int genphy_config_advert(struct p if (phydev->supported & (SUPPORTED_1000baseT_Half | SUPPORTED_1000baseT_Full)) { adv |= ethtool_adv_to_mii_ctrl1000_t(advertise); - if (adv != oldadv) - changed = 1; } + if (adv != oldadv) + changed = 1; + err = phy_write(phydev, MII_CTRL1000, adv); if (err < 0) return err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mugunthanvnm@xxxxxx are queue-3.14/net-phy-fix-phy-link-up-when-limiting-speed-via-device-tree.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