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

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Message-Id: <20200513.125546.1487344805837197413.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 12:55:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, andrew@...n.ch,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable-5.4.y] net: dsa: Do not make user port errors
 fatal

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
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@...il.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Greg, please queue this up.