Subject: Re: [PATCH net v5 0/4] net: enable inband link state negotiation only when explicitly requested

From: Stas Sergeev <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:17:40 +0300

21.07.2015 03:49, Florian Fainelli пишет:
> Hi all,
>
> Changes in v5:
>
> - removed an invalid use of the link_update callback in the SF2 driver
>    was appeared after merging "net: phy: fixed_phy: handle link-down case"
Thanks for bringing this forward!
For the future, perhaps it will make sense to also
teach phylib to never read link status (including speed)
when link is down. Will help to narrow more of such problems.