On my system with two network ports I found that runtime PM didn't suspend the unused port. Therefore I checked runtime pm in this driver in somewhat more detail and this series improves runtime pm in general and solves the mentioned issue.
Tested on a system with RTL8168evl (MAC version 34). Heiner Kallweit (3): r8169: remove unneeded rpm ops in rtl_shutdown r8169: improve runtime pm in rtl8169_check_link_status r8169: improve runtime pm in general and suspend unused ports drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 44 ++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) -- 2.15.1
