From: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:40:56 +0200

> Commit 2a15cd2ff488a9fdb55e5e34060f499853b27c77 upstream.
> 
> With runtime PM, if the ethernet cable is disconnected, the device is
> transitioned to D3 state to conserve energy. If the system is shutdown
> in this state, any register accesses in rtl_shutdown are dropped on
> the floor. As the device was programmed by .runtime_suspend() to wake
> on link changes, it is thus brought back up as soon as the link recovers.
> 
> Resuming every suspended device through the driver core would slow things
> down and it is not clear how many devices really need it now.
> 
> Original report and D0 transition patch by Sameer Nanda. Patch has been
> changed to comply with advices by Rafael J. Wysocki and the PM folks.
> 
> Reported-by: Sameer Nanda <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hayes Wang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

I'm fine with this, Greg please queue this up.

Thanks.
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