Patch "[PATCH 058/135] qeth: initialize net_device with carrier off" 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

[PATCH 058/135] qeth: initialize net_device with carrier off

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:
0058-qeth-initialize-net_device-with-carrier-off.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: Ursula Braun <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:27:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 058/135] qeth: initialize net_device with carrier off

[ Upstream commit e5ebe63214d44d4dcf43df02edf3613e04d671b9 ]

/sys/class/net/<interface>/operstate for an active qeth network interface offen shows "unknown", which translates to "state UNKNOWN in output of "ip link show". It is caused by a missing initialization of the __LINK_STATE_NOCARRIER bit in the net_device state field. This patch adds a netif_carrier_off() invocation when creating the net_device for a qeth device.

Reference-ID: Bugzilla 133209

---
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c |    1 +
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

@@ -1127,6 +1127,7 @@ static int qeth_l2_setup_netdev(struct q
 	qeth_l2_request_initial_mac(card);
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(card->dev, &card->gdev->dev);
 	netif_napi_add(card->dev, &card->napi, qeth_l2_poll, QETH_NAPI_WEIGHT);
+	netif_carrier_off(card->dev);
 	return register_netdev(card->dev);
 }
 

@@ -3220,6 +3220,7 @@ static int qeth_l3_setup_netdev(struct q
 
 	SET_NETDEV_DEV(card->dev, &card->gdev->dev);
 	netif_napi_add(card->dev, &card->napi, qeth_l3_poll, QETH_NAPI_WEIGHT);
+	netif_carrier_off(card->dev);
 	return register_netdev(card->dev);
 }
 

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

queue-4.4/0058-qeth-initialize-net_device-with-carrier-off.patch