On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 06:46:48PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to