From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois Romieu Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] r8169: workaround for missing extended GigaMAC registers Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 13:25:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20121206122530.GA3318@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20121206073842.GA3847@udknight> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Lee Chun-Yi , Hayes Wang To: Wang YanQing Return-path: Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:46220 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754997Ab2LFMuo (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2012 07:50:44 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121206073842.GA3847@udknight> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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