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

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu May 14 2020 - 06:28:03 EST


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:55:46PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h