Patch "net: bgmac: Remove superflous netif_carrier_on()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

net: bgmac: Remove superflous netif_carrier_on()

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:
net-bgmac-remove-superflous-netif_carrier_on.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:25:33 -0700
Subject: net: bgmac: Remove superflous netif_carrier_on()

From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>

commit 3894396e64994f31c3ef5c7e6f63dded0593e567 upstream.

bgmac_open() calls phy_start() to initialize the PHY state machine, which will set the interface's carrier state accordingly, no need to force that as this could be conflicting with the PHY state determined by PHYLIB.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1308,8 +1308,6 @@ static int bgmac_open(struct net_device
 
 	phy_start(bgmac->phy_dev);
 
-	netif_carrier_on(net_dev);
-
 	netif_start_queue(net_dev);
 
 	return 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/net-korina-fix-napi-versus-resources-freeing.patch queue-4.4/arm-dts-bcm5301x-correct-gic_ppi-interrupt-flags.patch queue-4.4/net-bgmac-start-transmit-queue-in-bgmac_open.patch queue-4.4/net-bgmac-fix-sof-bit-checking.patch queue-4.4/net-bgmac-remove-superflous-netif_carrier_on.patch