Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Changes to sysfs PM layer break userspace | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:55:43 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 20:32 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:23:05PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 20:08 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > I'm not sure. Suspending the chip means you lose things like link beat > > > detection, so it's not something you necessarily want to automatically > > > tie to something like interface status. > > > > right now the "spec" for Linux network drivers assumes that you put the > > NIC into D3 on down, except for cases where Wake-on-Lan is enabled etc. > > Really? I can't find any drivers that seem to do this. The only calls to > pci_set_power_state seem to be in the suspend, resume, init and exit > routines.
your grep missed tg3.c for example, which has a wrapper around the power state code and goes to D3hot on downing of the interface. (just the first one I looked at as a "reference driver", others probably do the same thing)
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