The NOLINK state will poll the phy once a second to see if the link has come up. If the phy has an interrupt line, this polling can be skipped, since the phy should interrupt when the link returns.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c index adb48abafc87..48ce6ef400fe 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -863,6 +863,9 @@ void phy_state_machine(struct work_struct *work) needs_aneg = true; break; case PHY_NOLINK: + if (phy_interrupt_is_valid(phydev)) + break; + err = phy_read_status(phydev); if (err) break; -- 2.6.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html