Patch "bgmac: reset & enable Ethernet core before using it" 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

bgmac: reset & enable Ethernet core before using it

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:
bgmac-reset-enable-ethernet-core-before-using-it.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: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:30:45 +0200
Subject: bgmac: reset & enable Ethernet core before using it
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From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>

commit b4dfd8e92956b396d3438212bc9a0be6267b8b34 upstream.

This fixes Ethernet on D-Link DIR-885L with BCM47094 SoC. Felix reported similar fix was needed for his BCM4709 device (Buffalo WXR-1900DHP?). I tested this for regressions on BCM4706, BCM4708A0 and BCM47081A0.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bgmac.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

@@ -1583,6 +1583,11 @@ static int bgmac_probe(struct bcma_devic
 		dev_warn(&core->dev, "Using random MAC: %pM\n", mac);
 	}
 
+	/* This (reset &) enable is not preset in specs or reference driver but
+	 * Broadcom does it in arch PCI code when enabling fake PCI device.
+	 */
+	bcma_core_enable(core, 0);
+
 	/* Allocation and references */
 	net_dev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*bgmac));
 	if (!net_dev)

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

queue-4.4/bgmac-reset-enable-ethernet-core-before-using-it.patch