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Commit 21796261 authored by Heiner Kallweit's avatar Heiner Kallweit Committed by David S. Miller
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net: phy: warn if phy_start is called from invalid state



phy_start() should be called from states PHY_READY or PHY_HALTED only.
Check for this to detect misbehaving drivers. Also the state machine
should be started only when being called from one of the valid states.

Some more background:
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.

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Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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