Kai Heng Feng wrote:
Hopefully Hayes (or Realtek) can shed more lights on the issue. Apparently
ALDPS and ASPM for r8169 is enabled in different commercial products, just
not in Linux mainline.
Hayes and Realtek folks,
How do we make this patch going forward?
Do
> On 15 Nov 2017, at 6:53 PM, David Miller wrote:
>
> From: Kai-Heng Feng
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 04:00:18 -0500
>
>> Commit ("r8169: enable ALDPS for power saving") caused a regression on
>> RTL8168evl/8111evl [1], so it got reverted.
>>
David Miller :
[...]
> The amount of coverage this change is going to get is very small as
> well, meaning an even greater chance of regressions.
Yes.
> Therefore the only acceptable way to handle this is to have
> a white-list, specific chips that have been explicitly
From: Kai-Heng Feng
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 04:00:18 -0500
> Commit ("r8169: enable ALDPS for power saving") caused a regression on
> RTL8168evl/8111evl [1], so it got reverted.
>
> Instead of reverting the whole commit, let's reinstate ALDPS for all
> models other
Commit ("r8169: enable ALDPS for power saving") caused a regression on
RTL8168evl/8111evl [1], so it got reverted.
Instead of reverting the whole commit, let's reinstate ALDPS for all
models other than RTL8168evl/8111evl.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/5/36
Cc: Francois Romieu