On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:02 AM Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FYI. Looks like 4514d991d992 ("PCI: PM: Do not read power state in
> pci_enable_device_flags()") appeared in v5.13-rc1, so it would be nice
> to fix before v5.13.
I think let's revert it for now and revisit.
Do you want me to push the revert?
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213481
>
> Initial report:
>
> On the 4.19 kernel, this works perfect. It also works perfectly in
> Windows. If I reboot into 4.19, there is no problem with networking,
> however in 5.10, there is ZERO network connectivity. The link NEVER
> comes up. You can't assign an IP address to the interface.
>
>
> From comment #2:
>
> If I revert commit 4514d991d99211f225d83b7e640285f29f0755d0 (
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4514d991d99211f225d83b7e640285f29f0755d0)
> from the 5.10.36 kernel, I do NOT have this hardware failure
> message. This commit relates to PCI power state.
>
> It would appear something about this change that the e1000e driver
> is not handling properly on this system, causing the card to not
> work.
>
> As mentioned this is in current kernel versions (5.13, 5.11, and
> 5.10.36+). Given that this is a regression, a breaking change for
> the usability of these cards, and we know exactly what causes it for
> a hopefully easy fix, I've upped the severity.
