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r8169: disable ASPM again
authorHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Fri, 5 Apr 2019 18:46:46 +0000 (20:46 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 8 Apr 2019 22:19:16 +0000 (15:19 -0700)
commitb230714fdb1451824d8f0d53c4f1a8ee1ab870ab
tree3186ff9b89b7e68d987e7b8bdb910bb4308c2ee4
parent73de9e4d8f313093eb3fbfe857dc8b2595b9e48f
r8169: disable ASPM again

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: e53d4f3a3a6c ("r8169: Reinstate ASPM Support")
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c