diff --git a/target/linux/ramips/patches-5.4/990-NET-no-auto-carrier-off-support.patch b/target/linux/ramips/patches-5.4/990-NET-no-auto-carrier-off-support.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c15be64377
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/ramips/patches-5.4/990-NET-no-auto-carrier-off-support.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+From 0b6eb1e68290243d439ee330ea8d0b239a5aec69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
+Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 09:38:50 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 34/53] NET: multi phy support
+
+Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
+---
+ drivers/net/phy/phy.c |    9 ++++++---
+ include/linux/phy.h   |    1 +
+ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
++++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+@@ -546,7 +546,10 @@ static int phy_check_link_status(struct
+ 		phy_link_up(phydev);
+ 	} else if (!phydev->link && phydev->state != PHY_NOLINK) {
+ 		phydev->state = PHY_NOLINK;
+-		phy_link_down(phydev, true);
++			if (!phydev->no_auto_carrier_off)
++				phy_link_down(phydev, true);
++			else
++				phy_link_down(phydev, false);
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	return 0;
+@@ -926,7 +929,10 @@ void phy_state_machine(struct work_struc
+ 	case PHY_HALTED:
+ 		if (phydev->link) {
+ 			phydev->link = 0;
+-			phy_link_down(phydev, true);
++			if (!phydev->no_auto_carrier_off)
++				phy_link_down(phydev, true);
++			else
++				phy_link_down(phydev, false);
+ 		}
+ 		do_suspend = true;
+ 		break;
+--- a/include/linux/phy.h
++++ b/include/linux/phy.h
+@@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ struct phy_device {
+ 	unsigned suspended_by_mdio_bus:1;
+ 	unsigned sysfs_links:1;
+ 	unsigned loopback_enabled:1;
++	unsigned no_auto_carrier_off:1;
+ 
+ 	unsigned autoneg:1;
+ 	/* The most recently read link state */