Re: [PATCH] PCI: Disable ASPM if BIOS asks us to

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Dec 02 2010 - 17:52:32 EST


On Thursday, December 02, 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:24:31PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > + if (!aspm_force) {
> > > aspm_disabled = 1;
> > > + if (clear)
> > > + aspm_clear_state = clear;
> >
> > Well, is the if(clear) really necessary?
>
> If the FADT disables ASPM, and then we fail to get the control bits,
> we'd call this twice and turn off aspm_clear_state.

Ah, thanks. So if you used a separate function for handling the "BIOS tells
us there's no ASPM" case, that wouldn't be necessary? ;-)
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