So far phy_error() silently stops the PHY state machine. If the network
driver doesn't inform about a  MDIO error then the user may wonder why
his network is down. So let's inform the user.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index 890ae1d73..a898fa411 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -739,6 +739,8 @@ static void phy_error(struct phy_device *phydev)
        phydev->state = PHY_HALTED;
        mutex_unlock(&phydev->lock);
 
+       phydev_err(phydev, "stopping PHY state machine due to error\n");
+
        phy_trigger_machine(phydev);
 }
 
-- 
2.20.0

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