On Saturday, September 08, 2012, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > +cc Rafael, Huang, linux-pm > > On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On occasion when I unload and reload driver rtl8192ce, I get the message > > > > "Refused to change power state, currently in D3" > > > > I added additional info to the printk and discovered that it was trying to > > change to state D0. The problem seems to occur when I have made a > > connection, unloaded the driver, and reloaded it. If I do not make a > > connection before unloading, then the problem is a lot less likely. > > > > This is with kernel 3.6-rc4 from wireless-testing. A Google search shows > > that the problem is usually due to suspend/resume difficulties, but this > > machine has not been suspended. > > > > I would appreciate any help that you might give in solving this issue. I think writing "on" to the /sys/devices/.../power/control attribute of the device in question would help. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html