Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Sep 20 2018 - 00:15:21 EST


From: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:39:30 +0200

> Hi Russell,
>
> Following the discussion we had regarding the phylink issue related to
> the carrier link state not being off when starting phylink, I sent a fix
> patch a few days ago for the PPv2 driver:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/14/633
>
> The idea was to send a patch which could go to the stable branches, but
> a better solution would be to directly call netif_carrier_off() from
> within phylink_start(). This is the aim of this series.

Series applied.