netdev - Re: [PATCH net] r8169: disable ASPM again

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Date:   Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8169: disable ASPM again

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 20:46:46 +0200

> There's a significant number of reports that re-enabling ASPM causes
> different issues, ranging from decreased performance to system not
> booting at all. This affects only a minority of users, but the number
> of affected users is big enough that we better switch off ASPM again.
> 
> This will hurt notebook users who are not affected by the issues, they
> may see decreased battery runtime w/o ASPM. With the PCI core folks is
> being discussed to add generic sysfs attributes to control ASPM.
> Once this is in place brave enough users can re-enable ASPM on their
> system.
> 
> Fixes: a99790bf5c7f ("r8169: Reinstate ASPM Support")
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

Fingers crossed...