Merge branch 'phylink-ensure-the-carrier-is-off-when-starting-phylink'

Antoine Tenart says:

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net: phy: phylink: ensure the carrier is off when starting phylink

Following the discussion we had regarding the phylink issue related to
the carrier link state not being off when starting phylink, I sent a fix
patch a few days ago for the PPv2 driver:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/14/633

The idea was to send a patch which could go to the stable branches, but
a better solution would be to directly call netif_carrier_off() from
within phylink_start(). This is the aim of this series.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta.c

@@ -3791,9 +3791,6 @@ static int mvneta_open(struct net_device *dev)
 			goto err_free_online_hp;
 	}
 
-	/* In default link is down */
-	netif_carrier_off(pp->dev);
-
 	ret = mvneta_mdio_probe(pp);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		netdev_err(dev, "cannot probe MDIO bus\n");

drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c

@@ -3193,7 +3193,6 @@ static void mvpp2_start_dev(struct mvpp2_port *port)
 		mvpp22_mode_reconfigure(port);
 
 	if (port->phylink) {
-		netif_carrier_off(port->dev);
 		phylink_start(port->phylink);
 	} else {
 		/* Phylink isn't used as of now for ACPI, so the MAC has to be

drivers/net/phy/phylink.c

@@ -901,6 +901,9 @@ void phylink_start(struct phylink *pl)
 		    phylink_an_mode_str(pl->link_an_mode),
 		    phy_modes(pl->link_config.interface));
 
+	/* Always set the carrier off */
+	netif_carrier_off(pl->netdev);
+
 	/* Apply the link configuration to the MAC when starting. This allows
 	 * a fixed-link to start with the correct parameters, and also
 	 * ensures that we set the appropriate advertisement for Serdes links.