Hi Florian,

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 09:49:15AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 08/25/2017 07:48 AM, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > This patch adds an extra check when the link_event function is called,
> > so that it won't do anything when the netif isn't running.
> 
> Why is this needed? Are you possibly starting the PHY state machine
> earlier than your ndo_open() call? Looking quickly through the driver
> does not suggest this is going on since you properly connect to the PHY
> in mvpp2_open() and start the PHY there.

I added some checks while working on this, and kept this one. But I
looked at the driver again and I assume you're right and the patch could
be dropped.

Thanks!
Antoine

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Antoine Ténart, Free Electrons
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