I think I've seen a similar or same patch before, not sure why it didn't make it yet. When being in state PHY_HALTED we don't have to reschedule the state machine, phy_start() will start it again.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c index 1ee25877c..c78203b25 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c @@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ void phy_state_machine(struct work_struct *work) * PHY, if PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT is set, then we will be moving * between states from phy_mac_interrupt() */ - if (phy_polling_mode(phydev)) + if (phy_polling_mode(phydev) && old_state != PHY_HALTED) queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &phydev->state_queue, PHY_STATE_TIME * HZ); } -- 2.19.0