Re: [PATCH 4.19 006/103] net: phy: phy driver features are mandatory

[Andrew Lunn]

> > Hi
> > 
> > This points to an issue with the Generic 10G PHY driver. The following patch seems to be missing from the 4.19 stable tree and should be merged:
> > f802912 net: phy: genphy_10g_driver: Avoid NULL pointer dereference
> 
> But that patch says it:
> Fixes: 719655a14971 ("net: phy: Replace phy driver features u32 with link_mode bitmap")
> 
> Which is not in 4.19.y, it showed up in 4.20.
> 
> Ah, wait, I think that there was a patch backported to the 4.19.y queue
> that should not have, specifically:
> 	3e64cf7a435e ("net: phy: phy driver features are mandatory")
> which said it too fixes:
> 	719655a14971 ("net: phy: Replace phy driver features u32 with link_mode bitmap")

Hi Greg

None of these patches should be backported to v4.19. All the link mode
and features stuff is v4.20 and later.

Thanks
	Andrew