netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET/r8169: Rework suspend and resume

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Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:20:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rjw@...k.pl
Cc:	bonbons@...ux-vserver.org, romieu@...zoreil.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET/r8169: Rework suspend and resume

From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:59:31 +0200

> On Sunday 05 April 2009, Bruno Prémont wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 April 2009 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
>> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
>> > 
>> > The recent changes of the PCI PM core allow us to simplify the
>> > suspend and resume handling in a number of device drivers, since they
>> > don't need to carry out the general PCI PM operations, such as
>> > changing the power state of the device, during suspend and resume any
>> > more.
>> > 
>> > Simplify the suspend and resume callbacks of r8169 using the
>> > observation that the PCI PM core can take care of some operations
>> > carried out by the driver.
>> > 
>> > Additionally, make the shutdown callback of r8169 only put the device
>> > into a low power state if the system is going to be powered off
>> > (kexec is known to have problems with network adapters that are put
>> > into low power states on shutdown).
>> > 
>> > This patch has been tested on MSI Wind U100.
>> 
>> Tested against 2.6.29.1 on my Commell LE-365 and suspend (S3) + WoL
>> still works as expected.
>> 
>> 02:08.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>>                      RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet [10ec:8169] (rev 10)
> 
> Thanks for testing!

I've applied this patch to net-next-2.6, thanks everyone.
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