Commit 321beec5 authored Nov 16, 2015 by Andrew Lunn Committed by David S. Miller Nov 17, 2015

net: phy: Use interrupts when available in NOLINK state



The NOLINK state will poll the phy once a second to see if the link
has come up. If the phy has an interrupt line, this polling can be
skipped, since the phy should interrupt when the link returns.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 819ec8e1

drivers/net/phy/phy.c

+3 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -863,6 +863,9 @@ void phy_state_machine(struct work_struct *work)
		needs_aneg = true;
		break;
		case PHY_NOLINK:
		if (phy_interrupt_is_valid(phydev))
		break;

		err = phy_read_status(phydev);
		if (err)
		break;

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