Re: [PATCH] r8169: don't use MSI-X on RTL8106e

[David Miller]

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:37:31 +0200

> On 16.08.2018 21:21, David Miller wrote:
>> From: <jian-hong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:21:10 +0800
>> 
>>> Found the ethernet network on ASUS X441UAR doesn't come back on resume
>>> from suspend when using MSI-X.  The chip is RTL8106e - version 39.
>> 
>> Heiner, please take a look at this.
>> 
>> You recently disabled MSI-X on RTL8168g for similar reasons.
>> 
>> Now that we've seen two chips like this, maybe there is some other
>> problem afoot.
>> 
> Thanks for the hint. I saw it already and just contacted Realtek
> whether they are aware of any MSI-X issues with particular chip
> versions. With the chip versions I have access to MSI-X works fine.
> 
> There's also the theoretical option that the issues are caused by
> broken BIOS's. But so far only chip versions have been reported
> which are very similar, at least with regard to version number
> (2x VER_40, 1x VER_39). So they may share some buggy component.
> 
> Let's see whether Realtek can provide some hint.
> If more chip versions are reported having problems with MSI-X,
> then we could switch to a whitelist or disable MSI-X in general.

It could be that we need to reprogram some register(s) on resume,
which normally might not be needed, and that is what is causing the
problem with some chips.