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Commit 59088b5a authored by Russell King (Oracle)'s avatar Russell King (Oracle) Committed by David S. Miller
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net: phy: avoid kernel warning dump when stopping an errored PHY



When taking a network interface down (or removing a SFP module) after
the PHY has encountered an error, phy_stop() complains incorrectly
that it was called from HALTED state.

The reason this is incorrect is that the network driver will have
called phy_start() when the interface was brought up, and the fact
that the PHY has a problem bears no relationship to the administrative
state of the interface. Taking the interface administratively down
(which calls phy_stop()) is always the right thing to do after a
successful phy_start() call, whether or not the PHY has encountered
an error.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Acked-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 18731fe0
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