From: Russell King <rmk+ker...@armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:05:36 +0100

> It was been observed that with a particular order of initialisation,
> the netdev can be up, but the SFP module still has its TX_DISABLE
> signal asserted.  This occurs when the network device brought up before
> the SFP kernel module has been inserted by userspace.
> 
> This occurs because sfp-bus layer does not hear about the change in
> network device state, and so assumes that it is still down.  Set
> netdev->sfp when the upstream is registered to work around this problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@armlinux.org.uk>

Applied.

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