This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled r8169: check ALDPS bit and disable it if enabled for the 8168g to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: r8169-check-aldps-bit-and-disable-it-if-enabled-for-the-8168g.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c11447cd532b5021dc2ea90b7f63c1b51954535c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Chang <dchang@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:48:36 +0800 Subject: r8169: check ALDPS bit and disable it if enabled for the 8168g From: David Chang <dchang@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1bac1072425c86f1ac85bd5967910706677ef8b3 ] Windows driver will enable ALDPS function, but linux driver and firmware do not have any configuration related to ALDPS function for 8168g. So restart system to linux and remove the NIC cable, LAN enter ALDPS, then LAN RX will be disabled. This issue can be easily reproduced on dual boot windows and linux system with RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_40 chip. Realtek said, ALDPS function can be disabled by configuring to PHY, switch to page 0x0A43, reg0x10 bit2=0. Signed-off-by: David Chang <dchang@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c @@ -3456,6 +3456,11 @@ static void rtl8168g_1_hw_phy_config(str rtl_writephy(tp, 0x14, 0x9065); rtl_writephy(tp, 0x14, 0x1065); + /* Check ALDPS bit, disable it if enabled */ + rtl_writephy(tp, 0x1f, 0x0a43); + if (rtl_readphy(tp, 0x10) & 0x0004) + rtl_w1w0_phy(tp, 0x10, 0x0000, 0x0004); + rtl_writephy(tp, 0x1f, 0x0000); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dchang@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/r8169-check-aldps-bit-and-disable-it-if-enabled-for-the-8168g.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html