netdev - Re: [net 0/4][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2020-12-23

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Date:   Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:07:35 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, sassmann@...hat.com,
        alexander.duyck@...il.com, sasha.neftin@...el.com,
        darcari@...hat.com, Yijun.Shen@...l.com, Perry.Yuan@...l.com,
        anthony.wong@...onical.com, hdegoede@...hat.com,
        mario.limonciello@...l.com
Subject: Re: [net 0/4][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
 2020-12-23

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:36:21 -0800 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> Commit e086ba2fccda ("e1000e: disable s0ix entry and exit flows for ME
> systems") disabled S0ix flows for systems that have various incarnations of
> the i219-LM ethernet controller.  This was done because of some regressions
> caused by an earlier commit 632fbd5eb5b0e ("e1000e: fix S0ix flows for
> cable connected case") with i219-LM controller.
> 
> Per discussion with Intel architecture team this direction should be
> changed and allow S0ix flows to be used by default.  This patch series
> includes directional changes for their conclusions in
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/12/13/15.

Pulled, thanks!