Re: [PATCH stable-5.4.y] net: dsa: Do not make user port errors fatal

From: David Miller
Date: Wed May 13 2020 - 15:55:50 EST


From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 10:41:45 -0700

> commit 86f8b1c01a0a537a73d2996615133be63cdf75db upstream
>
> Prior to 1d27732f411d ("net: dsa: setup and teardown ports"), we would
> not treat failures to set-up an user port as fatal, but after this
> commit we would, which is a regression for some systems where interfaces
> may be declared in the Device Tree, but the underlying hardware may not
> be present (pluggable daughter cards for instance).
>
> Fixes: 1d27732f411d ("net: dsa: setup and teardown ports")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Greg, please queue this up.