From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 21:11:21 +0200
> Since commit a92a08499b1f "r8169: improve runtime pm in general and > suspend unused ports" interfaces w/o link are runtime-suspended after > 10s. On systems where drivers take longer to load this can lead to the > situation that the interface is runtime-suspended already when it's > initially brought up. > This shouldn't be a problem because rtl_open() resumes MAC/PHY. > However with at least one chip version the interface doesn't properly > come up, as reported here: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199549 > > The vendor driver uses a delay to give certain chip versions some > time to resume before starting the PHY configuration. So let's do > the same. I don't know which chip versions may be affected, > therefore apply this delay always. > > This patch was reported to fix the issue for RTL8168h. > I was able to reproduce the issue on an Asus H310I-Plus which also > uses a RTL8168h. Also in my case the patch fixed the issue. > > Reported-by: Slava Kardakov <o...@ojab.ru> > Tested-by: Slava Kardakov <o...@ojab.ru> > Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> Applied and queued up for -stable. > This patch will not apply to net-next as it conflicts with other > changes which have been done in the meantime. So I'll send a > separate patch for net-next. That's fine, I'll deal with it when I next merge net into net-next. Sending another copy of this patch for net-next is not the way to deal with this. Just make me aware of the impending complict and I will resolve it when I see it. Thanks.
