diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index 716870a4499c..e4562859ac00 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -1487,6 +1487,13 @@ int phy_attach_direct(struct net_device *dev, struct phy_device *phydev,
 
 	phydev->interrupts = PHY_INTERRUPT_DISABLED;
 
+	/* PHYs can request to use poll mode even though they have an
+	 * associated interrupt line. This could be the case if they
+	 * detect a broken interrupt handling.
+	 */
+	if (phydev->dev_flags & PHY_F_NO_IRQ)
+		phydev->irq = PHY_POLL;
+
 	/* Port is set to PORT_TP by default and the actual PHY driver will set
 	 * it to different value depending on the PHY configuration. If we have
 	 * the generic PHY driver we can't figure it out, thus set the old
diff --git a/include/linux/phy.h b/include/linux/phy.h
index 6378c997ded5..742754d72fc0 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy.h
@@ -739,6 +739,9 @@ struct phy_device {
 #endif
 };
 
+/* Generic phy_device::dev_flags */
+#define PHY_F_NO_IRQ		0x80000000
+
 static inline struct phy_device *to_phy_device(const struct device *dev)
 {
 	return container_of(to_mdio_device(dev), struct phy_device, mdio);