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) -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
