Re: [PATCH] PCI: Remove not needed check in disable aspm link

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Matthew Garrett
<matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 15:17 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
>> after those two patches, it aspm_disabled is set, via _osc early,
>> pre-1.1 devices aspm register will be touched even aspm_force is not specified.
>
> I don't follow. We were previously automatically disabling ASPM on
> pre-1.1 devices even if _OSC didn't give us control.

I don't think so, we just moved _OSC support/control setting before pci scan
in 3.8 and revert that in v3.9.

> I've confirmed that
> this was the wrong thing for us to be doing, and my patch changed the
> behaviour such that if the firmware enables ASPM on a pre-1.1 device and
> refuses to give us control via _OSC we will leave ASPM enabled.

not sure, aspm_disabled should be false on booting path when that function
is called, if you don't pass aspm=off.

Yinghai
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