> For all invalid states phy_start() basically was a no-op. All it did was > triggering a state machine run, but for all "running" states the poll > loop was active anyway. And if called from PHY_DOWN, the state machine > does nothing. Therefore I see no scenario where jumping to out would > break anything.
Hi Heiner
It is useful to put this sort of analysis in the commit message. You
then won't get people like me asking about it.
Andrew
