Messages in this thread | | | From | Hayes Wang <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH net] r8169: disable L23 | Date | Wed, 9 Jul 2014 06:36:05 +0000 |
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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
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