netdev - [PATCH net-next] net: phy: fixed_phy: fix missing initialization of fixed phy link

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Message-ID: <dab6c10e-725e-4648-9662-39cc821723d0@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:05:45 +0100
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: fixed_phy: fix missing initialization of
 fixed phy link

Original change remove the link initialization from the passed struct
fixed_phy_status, but missed to add it in all places in the code.

Fixes: 9f07af1d2742 ("net: phy: fixed_phy: initialize the link status as up")
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c
index cb548740f..50684271f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/fixed_phy.c
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static int __fixed_phy_add(int phy_addr,
 
 	fp->addr = phy_addr;
 	fp->status = *status;
+	fp->status.link = true;
 
 	list_add_tail(&fp->node, &fmb_phys);
 
-- 
2.52.0