[PATCH] via-rhine: add option avoid_D3 (work around broken BIOSes)

It looks like broken BIOSes controlling Rhine chips will remain in use in
significant numbers; such systems fail to come up via PXE after they have
been put into D3 (power-saving) mode.

This patch adds a module option for disabling the call that puts the chip
to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Joerg Bashir <brak@archive.org>
Cc: Tim Phipps <tim@phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
index fda367b92a28..ae971080e2e4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
+++ b/drivers/net/via-rhine.c
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ static int max_interrupt_work = 20;
    Setting to > 1518 effectively disables this feature. */
 static int rx_copybreak;
 
+/* Work-around for broken BIOSes: they are unable to get the chip back out of
+   power state D3 so PXE booting fails. bootparam(7): via-rhine.avoid_D3=1 */
+static int avoid_D3;
+
 /*
  * In case you are looking for 'options[]' or 'full_duplex[]', they
  * are gone. Use ethtool(8) instead.
@@ -120,9 +124,11 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 module_param(max_interrupt_work, int, 0);
 module_param(debug, int, 0);
 module_param(rx_copybreak, int, 0);
+module_param(avoid_D3, bool, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_interrupt_work, "VIA Rhine maximum events handled per interrupt");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "VIA Rhine debug level (0-7)");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(rx_copybreak, "VIA Rhine copy breakpoint for copy-only-tiny-frames");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(avoid_D3, "Avoid power state D3 (work-around for broken BIOSes)");
 
 /*
                 Theory of Operation
@@ -823,6 +829,9 @@ static int __devinit rhine_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev,
                 }
         }
         rp->mii_if.phy_id = phy_id;
+        if (debug > 1 && avoid_D3)
+                printk(KERN_INFO "%s: No D3 power state at shutdown.\n",
+                       dev->name);
 
         return 0;
 
@@ -1911,7 +1920,8 @@ static void rhine_shutdown (struct pci_dev *pdev)
         }
 
         /* Hit power state D3 (sleep) */
-        iowrite8(ioread8(ioaddr + StickyHW) | 0x03, ioaddr + StickyHW);
+        if (!avoid_D3)
+                iowrite8(ioread8(ioaddr + StickyHW) | 0x03, ioaddr + StickyHW);
 
         /* TODO: Check use of pci_enable_wake() */