Patch "phylink: ensure the PHY interface mode is appropriately set" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

phylink: ensure the PHY interface mode is appropriately set

to the 4.14-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:
phylink-ensure-the-phy-interface-mode-is-appropriately-set.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Russell King <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:21:28 +0000
Subject: phylink: ensure the PHY interface mode is appropriately set

From: Russell King <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 182088aa3c6c7f7c20a2c1dcc9ded4a3fc631f38 ]

When setting the ethtool settings, ensure that the validated PHY interface mode is propagated to the current link settings, so that 2500BaseX can be selected.

---
 drivers/net/phy/phylink.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -948,6 +948,7 @@ int phylink_ethtool_ksettings_set(struct
 	mutex_lock(&pl->state_mutex);
 	/* Configure the MAC to match the new settings */
 	linkmode_copy(pl->link_config.advertising, our_kset.link_modes.advertising);
+	pl->link_config.interface = config.interface;
 	pl->link_config.speed = our_kset.base.speed;
 	pl->link_config.duplex = our_kset.base.duplex;
 	pl->link_config.an_enabled = our_kset.base.autoneg != AUTONEG_DISABLE;

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

queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-the-phy-interface-mode-is-appropriately-set.patch queue-4.14/phylink-ensure-an-is-enabled.patch