netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Two phylink pause fixes

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:54:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linux@...linux.org.uk
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] Two phylink pause fixes

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:46:42 +0100

> While testing, I discovered two issues with ethtool -A with phylink.
> First, if there is a PHY bound to the network device, we hit a
> deadlock when phylib tries to notify us of the link changing as a
> result of triggering a renegotiation.
> 
> Second, when we are manually forcing the pause settings, and there
> is no renegotiation triggered, we do not update the MAC via the new
> mac_link_up approach.
> 
> These two patches solve both problems, and will need to be backported
> to v5.7; they do not apply cleanly there due to the introduction of
> PCS in the v5.8 merge window.

Series applied, thank you.