netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "net: phy: marvell: avoid pause mode on SGMII-to-Copper for 88e151x"

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Date:   Sat, 02 Feb 2019 19:44:31 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:     rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "net: phy: marvell: avoid pause mode on
 SGMII-to-Copper for 88e151x"

From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:59:46 +0000

> This reverts commit 6623c0fba10ef45b64ca213ad5dec926f37fa9a0.
> 
> The original diagnosis was incorrect: it appears that the NIC had
> PHY polling mode enabled, which meant that it overwrote the PHYs
> advertisement register during negotiation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> ---
> v2: respun on top of net-next, but I've not yet been able to boot
>  test this - which is unlikely to be for a while yet.

This looks like a fix so I have applied it to 'net' and queued it up for
-stable.