Patch "ixgbe: do not disable FEC from the driver" 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

ixgbe: do not disable FEC from the driver

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:
ixgbe-do-not-disable-fec-from-the-driver.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: Emil Tantilov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:01:48 -0700
Subject: ixgbe: do not disable FEC from the driver

From: Emil Tantilov <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 1fe954b2097bb907b4578e6a74e4c1d23785a601 ]

FEC is configured by the NVM and the driver should not be overriding it.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1643,8 +1643,6 @@ static s32 ixgbe_setup_kr_speed_x550em(s
 		return status;
 
 	reg_val |= IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_ENABLE;
-	reg_val &= ~(IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_FEC_REQ |
-		     IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_FEC);
 	reg_val &= ~(IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_KR |
 		     IXGBE_KRM_LINK_CTRL_1_TETH_AN_CAP_KX);
 

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

queue-4.4/ixgbe-handle-close-suspend-race-with-netif_device_detach-present.patch queue-4.4/ixgbe-do-not-disable-fec-from-the-driver.patch queue-4.4/ixgbe-fix-aer-error-handling.patch queue-4.4/ixgbe-add-mask-for-64-rss-queues.patch