netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add sysfs attribute to prevent PHY suspend

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Message-Id: <20140309.204101.47552917508273123.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:41:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com
Cc:	rob@...dley.net, andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: Add sysfs attribute to prevent PHY suspend

From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:37:32 +0100

> The mechanism is manual, no automatic way to determine it.

We recognize BIOS and ACPI bugs and work around them, by looking at
version information and whatnot, so you really can't convince me that
something similar can't be done here perhaps in the platform code.


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