Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754691AbaGIGgS (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2014 02:36:18 -0400 Received: from rtits2.realtek.com ([60.250.210.242]:41596 "EHLO rtits2.realtek.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751268AbaGIGgP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2014 02:36:15 -0400 X-SpamFilter-By: BOX Solutions SpamTrap 5.39 with qID s696a5jb017450, This message is accepted by code: ctloc85258 From: Hayes Wang To: Francois Romieu CC: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , nic_swsd Subject: RE: [PATCH net] r8169: disable L23 Thread-Topic: [PATCH net] r8169: disable L23 Thread-Index: AQHPmoZbW/3+J0HPL0qr/A2kidAPWZuWF9kAgAEsuSA= Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 06:36:05 +0000 Message-ID: <0835B3720019904CB8F7AA43166CEEB2505DFA@RTITMBSV03.realtek.com.tw> References: <1394712342-15778-6-Taiwan-albertk@realtek.com> <20140708201630.GA31885@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> In-Reply-To: <20140708201630.GA31885@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Accept-Language: zh-TW, en-US Content-Language: zh-TW X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [172.21.71.143] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu [mailto:romieu@fr.zoreil.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 4:17 AM > To: Hayes Wang > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; nic_swsd > Subject: Re: [PATCH net] r8169: disable L23 [...] > Can you elaborate what L23 is or should the commit message be reworded > as "Disable a (yet undocumented) power saving feature that randomly > causes RTL8411, RTL8111G, RTL8402, RTL8105, and RTL8106 devices to be > lost on some systems." ? The L2/L3 are the link status which are defined in the specification of the PCI Express Base Specification for the link state power manager. I don't know them much, so I don't sure if I could explain them clearly. Best Regards, Hayes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/