From: Heiner Kallweit <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2019 20:46:46 +0200
> There's a significant number of reports that re-enabling ASPM causes
> different issues, ranging from decreased performance to system not
> booting at all. This affects only a minority of users, but the number
> of affected users is big enough that we better switch off ASPM again.
>
> This will hurt notebook users who are not affected by the issues, they
> may see decreased battery runtime w/o ASPM. With the PCI core folks is
> being discussed to add generic sysfs attributes to control ASPM.
> Once this is in place brave enough users can re-enable ASPM on their
> system.
>
> Fixes: a99790bf5c7f ("r8169: Reinstate ASPM Support")
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <[email protected]>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
Fingers crossed...
