From: Jose Abreu <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:43:10 +0200
> While running stmmac selftests I found that in my 1G setup some tests > were failling when running with PHY loopback enabled. > > It looks like when loopback is enabled the PHY will report that Link is > down even though there is a valid connection. > > As in loopback mode the data will not be sent anywhere we can bypass the > logic of checking if Link is valid thus saving unecessary reads. > > Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu <[email protected]> Applied to net-next.

