netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] r8169 (x86) clk fixes to fix S0ix not being reached

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Message-Id: <20180917.184850.781321135177511686.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:48:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hdegoede@...hat.com
Cc:     hkallweit1@...il.com, mturquette@...libre.com, sboyd@...nel.org,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
        pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        js@...21.net, carlo@...lessm.com, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] r8169 (x86) clk fixes to fix S0ix not being
 reached

From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:34:53 +0200

> This series adds code to the r8169 ethernet driver to get and enable an
> external clock if present, avoiding the need for a hack in the
> clk-pmc-atom driver where that clock was left on continuesly causing x86
> some devices to not reach deep power saving states (S0ix) when suspended
> causing to them to quickly drain their battery while suspended.
> 
> The 3 commits in this series need to be merged in order to avoid
> regressions while bisecting. The clk-pmc-atom driver does not see much
> changes (it was last touched over a year ago). So the clk maintainers
> have agreed with merging all 3 patches through the net tree.
> All 3 patches have Stephen Boyd's Acked-by for this purpose.
> 
> This v2 of the series only had some minor tweaks done to the commit
> messages and is ready for merging through the net tree now.

Thanks for all of that useful information.

Series applied, thanks.