Re: [PATCH resend] ASPM: Fix pcie devices with non-pcie children

From: Jonathan Nieder
Date: Thu Mar 29 2012 - 17:02:40 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:17:41 -0400
[...]
>> commit 4949be16822e ("PCI: ignore pre-1.1 ASPM quirking
>> when ASPM is disabled") changed the behaviour of
>> pcie_aspm_sanity_check() to always return 0 if aspm is disabled, in
>> order to avoid cases where we changed ASPM state on pre-PCIe 1.1
>> devices. This skipped the secondary function of
>> pcie_aspm_sanity_check which was to avoid us enabling ASPM on devices
>> that had non-PCIe children, causing trouble later on.
[...]
>> Could
>> you pick it up for linux-next until it makes its way to the PCI tree?
[...]
> Just about the only person who wasn't copied on this email is, umm, the
> PCI maintainer!

Well spotted. Thanks for catching it.
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