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Bug#852505: linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64: Realtek Ethernet controller vanishes on reboot

From Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#852505: linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64: Realtek Ethernet controller vanishes on reboot
Date 2017-01-27 05:00 +0100
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On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 00:00 +0100, Andrea Zuccherelli wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 4.8.15-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The Ethernet controller RTL8105e in my Toshiba C660 notebook had a very strange behaviour.
> It worked once but not after, being not even seen by BIOS for LAN boot on next reboot.
> A hardware issue?

It sounds like it.  But all hardware has bugs, and drivers should work
around those bugs if possible.

[...]
> Searching for a solution I found that only a PCI reset, after unloading the driver could help:
> 
> root@zbox:~# echo 1 >/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/reset
> 
> So I added this to my "post-down" interface configuration.
> 
> Obviously this is just a workaround: so what is happening here?
> Is my hardware not resetting the PCI bus on an ACPI poweroff event?
> Should the kernel or driver do it?
> Where is the best place to force a device PCI reset so that no problem could arise on hibernate/suspend?

In the driver. :-)

But first, please test without these kernel parameters:

    pcie_aspm=force "acpi_osi=Windows 2009" "acpi_os_name=Windows 2009"

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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Bug#852505: linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64: Realtek Ethernet controller vanishes on reboot Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-01-27 05:00 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#852505: linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64: Realtek  Ethernet controller vanishes on reboot owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2017-01-27 05:00 +0100
  Bug#852505: linux-image-4.8.0-2-amd64: Realtek Ethernet controller vanishes on reboot Andrea Zuccherelli <andrea.zuccherelli@gmail.com> - 2017-01-28 00:20 +0100

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