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Lenovo ThinkPad Hybrid USB-C with USB-A Dock (17ef:a359) is affected by
the same problem as the Lenovo Powered USB-C Travel Hub (17ef:721e):
Both are based on the Realtek RTL8153B chip used to use the cdc_ether
driver. However, using this driver, with the system suspended the device
constantly sends pause-frames as soon as the receive buffer fills up.
This causes issues with other devices, where some Ethernet switches stop
forwarding packets altogether.
Using the Realtek driver (r8152) fixes this issue. Pause frames are no
longer sent while the host system is suspended.
Cc: Leon Schuermann <leon@is.currently.online>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> (maintainer:USB CDC ETHERNET DRIVER)
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
Link: https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/cb82a54904a9
Link: https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/2284bbd0cf39
Link: https://www.lenovo.com/de/de/p/accessories-and-software/docking/docking-usb-docks/40af0135eu
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@avm.de>
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/484336aad52d14ccf061b535bc19ef6396ef5120.1741601523.git.p.hahn@avm.de
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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This commit enables the use of the r8153_ecm driver, introduced with
commit c1aedf015ebdd0 ("net/usb/r8153_ecm: support ECM mode for
RTL8153") for the Lenovo Powered USB-C Hub (17ef:721e) based on the
Realtek RTL8153B chip.
This results in the following driver preference:
- if r8152 is available, use the r8152 driver
- if r8152 is not available, use the r8153_ecm driver
This is done to prevent the NIC from constantly sending pause frames
when the host system enters standby (fixed by using the r8152 driver
in "r8152: Add Lenovo Powered USB-C Travel Hub"), while still allowing
the device to work with the r8153_ecm driver as a fallback.
Signed-off-by: Leon Schuermann <leon@is.currently.online>
Tested-by: Leon Schuermann <leon@is.currently.online>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210111190312.12589-3-leon@is.currently.online
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Support ECM mode based on cdc_ether with relative mii functions,
when CONFIG_USB_RTL8152 is not set, or the device is not supported
by r8152 driver.
Both r8152 and r8153_ecm would check the return value of
rtl8152_get_version() in porbe(). If rtl8152_get_version()
return none zero value, the r8152 is used for the device
with vendor mode. Otherwise, the r8153_ecm is used for the
device with ECM mode.
Signed-off-by: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1394712342-15778-392-Taiwan-albertk@realtek.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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