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

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Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 11:46:45 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.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

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

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h