With a minor coding style fix, I've applied your patch
as below. Thanks.
commit 0acb28396728f42b6b1553c85d27c37513796043
Author: Trent Piepho [off-list ref]
Date: Wed Oct 8 15:46:57 2008 -0700
phylib: Wake PHY state machine on interrupt
This way the phy layer will respond to a change in phy state immediately,
instead of up to one second later when the state machine timer runs.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho [off-list ref]
Acked-by: Andy Fleming [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [off-list ref]
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index 0433fcd..20cc82c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -729,6 +729,12 @@ static void phy_change(struct work_struct *work)
if (err)
goto irq_enable_err;
+ /* Stop timer and run the state queue now. The work function for
+ * state_queue will start the timer up again.
+ */
+ del_timer(&phydev->phy_timer);
+ schedule_work(&phydev->state_queue);
+
return;
irq_enable_err: