From: "Matt Carlson" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:06:13 -0800

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:39:35PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:51:10PM -0800, Matt Carlson wrote:
>> > If management firmware is present and the device is down, the firmware
>> > will assume control of the phy.  If a phy access were allowed from the
>> > host, it will collide with firmware phy accesses, resulting in
>> > unpredictable behavior.  This patch fixes the problem by disallowing phy
>> > accesses during the problematic condition.
>> > 
>> > Upstream commit ID f746a3136a61ae535c5d0b49a9418fa21edc61b5
>> 
>> There is no such upstream git commit id in Linus's tree.  What am I
>> doing wrong here?
> 
> The commit is in Dave Miller's net-next-2.6 tree.
> 

If it wasn't appropriate for net-2.6, it absolutely it not appropriate
for -stable.

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