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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: remove link polling
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 02:59:07 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 18:09:01 +0100

> The link status is polled by the generic phy layer, there's no need to
> duplicate that polling with additional polling.  This additional polling
> adds additional MDIO traffic, and races with the generic phy layer,
> resulting in missing or duplicated link status messages.
> 
> Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Applied.