netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] r8169: workaround for missing extended GigaMAC registers

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Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:25:30 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Lee Chun-Yi <jlee@...e.com>, Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] r8169: workaround for missing extended GigaMAC registers

Wang YanQing:
[...]
> Are you sure we will lose GigaMAC registers's content
> after NIC into PCI_D3hot state ?

I have not made such a claim.

Only some bioses f*ck things up on resume, see:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=132195832624117&w=2

My test computer and its 8168evl (courtesy of Realtek) was not able to make
a difference w/o the patch: it always works.

-- 
Ueimor

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