There won't be a fix per se for Oneiric. This is a permanent condition
because it is a new setting of the Linux kernel, and nobody in power
considers it a bug, nor a very important issue. Sorry.

"There isn't any easy 'solution' to improve this situation beyond
affected users forcing the PCI-E Active-State Power Management using the
pcie_aspm=force kernel command line option. Jesse thinks that more Linux
drivers will end up needing to set the ASPM bits directly as a long-term
solution. There's just too many hardware devices that don't properly
support the ASPM power-saving modes.

The only alternative would be to create a big white-list of supported
devices, but that comes down to being effectively the same large task as
just having the driver set the appropriate bit. So there won't be any
magic fix in the Linux 3.0 kernel nor will there likely be any major
change in the Linux 3.1 kernel without suddenly a bunch of drivers
handling the Active-State Power Management bit. For now, mobile users
just need to know to force the PCI-E ASPM support if needed to maximize
the Linux battery life."

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