If we detect a MDIO error, it seems to be a little bit too aggressive to stop the state machine and bring down the PHY completely. E.g. when polling and we miss one update, then this has no relevant impact.
Heiner Kallweit (2): net: phy: don't stop state machine in case of MDIO error net: fec: remove workaround to restart state machine on MDIO error drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec.h | 1 - drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c | 12 ------- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 42 +++++------------------ include/linux/phy.h | 2 +- 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) -- 2.20.0