The removed code would be called in two situations: 1. interface is brought up never or >10s after driver load 2. after close()
Case 1 we can handle cleaner by ensuring chip is powered down when leaving probe(). open() callback will power up the chip. In case 2 we call rtl_pll_power_down() twice currently, from the close() callback and 10s later when entering runtime-suspend. This is avoided by this patch. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c index 9d5c7b17..e5f6f8c5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c @@ -7183,10 +7183,8 @@ static int rtl8169_runtime_suspend(struct device *device) struct net_device *dev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); struct rtl8169_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev); - if (!tp->TxDescArray) { - rtl_pll_power_down(tp); + if (!tp->TxDescArray) return 0; - } rtl_lock_work(tp); __rtl8169_set_wol(tp, WAKE_ANY); @@ -7645,6 +7643,9 @@ static int rtl_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev); + /* chip gets powered up in rtl_open() */ + rtl_pll_power_down(tp); + rc = register_netdev(dev); if (rc < 0) return rc; -- 2.18.0