net: phy: don't use locking in phy_is_started

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Russell suggested to remove the locking from phy_is_started() because
the read is atomic anyway and actually the locking may be more
misleading.

Fixes: 2b3e88ea65 ("net: phy: improve phy state checking")
Suggested-by: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Heiner Kallweit 2019-02-13 20:11:40 +01:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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