Patch "staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV()

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:
staging-octeon-call-set_netdev_dev.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 <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:13:24 -0800
Subject: staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV()

From: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>

commit e7c9a3d9e432200fd4c17855c2c23ac784d6e833 upstream.

The Octeon driver calls into PHYLIB which now checks for net_device->dev.parent, so make sure we do set it before calling into any MDIO/PHYLIB related function.

---
 drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

@@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform
 			/* Initialize the device private structure. */
 			struct octeon_ethernet *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 
+			SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev);
 			dev->netdev_ops = &cvm_oct_pow_netdev_ops;
 			priv->imode = CVMX_HELPER_INTERFACE_MODE_DISABLED;
 			priv->port = CVMX_PIP_NUM_INPUT_PORTS;

@@ -820,6 +821,7 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform
 			}
 
 			/* Initialize the device private structure. */
+			SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &pdev->dev);
 			priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 			priv->netdev = dev;
 			priv->of_node = cvm_oct_node_for_port(pip, interface,

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

queue-4.9/staging-octeon-call-set_netdev_dev.patch