From: Daniel Drake <dr...@endlessm.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:56:52 +0800

> rtl_init_one() currently enables PCI wakeups if the ethernet device
> is found to be WOL-capable. There is no need to do this when
> rtl8169_set_wol() will correctly enable or disable the same wakeup flag
> when WOL is activated/deactivated.
> 
> This works around an ACPI DSDT bug which prevents the Acer laptop models
> Aspire ES1-533, Aspire ES1-732, PackardBell ENTE69AP and Gateway NE533
> from entering S3 suspend - even when no ethernet cable is connected.
> 
> On these platforms, the DSDT says that GPE08 is a wakeup source for
> ethernet, but this GPE fires as soon as the system goes into suspend,
> waking the system up immediately. Having the wakeup normally disabled
> avoids this issue in the default case.
> 
> With this change, WOL will continue to be unusable on these platforms
> (it will instantly wake up if WOL is later enabled by the user) but we
> do not expect this to be a commonly used feature on these consumer
> laptops. We have separately determined that WOL works fine without any
> ACPI GPEs enabled during sleep, so a DSDT fix or override would be
> possible to make WOL work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dr...@endlessm.com>

Applied, thank you.

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