From: "Matt Carlson" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:10 -0800

> If management firmware is present and the device is down, the firmware
> will assume control of the phy.  If a phy access were allowed from the
> host, it will collide with firmware phy accesses, resulting in
> unpredictable behavior.  This patch fixes the problem by disallowing phy
> accesses during the problematic condition.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Applied.

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