Subject: Re: e100: Laptop battery drain and WoL settings from EEPROM

From: Ondrej Zary <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 19:18:03 +0100

On Sunday 09 November 2014 00:15:41 Ondrej Zary wrote:
> Hello,
> there is long-standing problem with battery drain after turning off at
> least some Toshiba laptops, see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/110784
>
> I have the same problem with Toshiba Portege R100. When I shut it down in
> Linux, the battery is drained to zero in a couple of days. I noticed that
> the LAN port is still active, even when AC disconnected.
>
> The WoL is enabled by default by e100 driver:
>
> # ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
>         Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
>         Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>         Supported pause frame use: No
>         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                                 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>         Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
>         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>         Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half
>         Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
>         Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: No
>         Speed: 10Mb/s
>         Duplex: Half
>         Port: MII
>         PHYAD: 1
>         Transceiver: internal
>         Auto-negotiation: on
>         Supports Wake-on: g
>         Wake-on: g
>         Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
>                                drv probe link
>         Link detected: yes
>
> By this code:
>         /* Wol magic packet can be enabled from eeprom */
>         if ((nic->mac >= mac_82558_D101_A4) &&
>            (nic->eeprom[eeprom_id] & eeprom_id_wol)) {
>                 nic->flags |= wol_magic;
>                 device_set_wakeup_enable(&pdev->dev, true);
>         }
>
> because the WoL bit is set in EEPROM ID word:
>
> # ethtool -e eth0
> Offset          Values
> ------          ------
> 0x0000:         xx xx xx xx xx xx 03 1b 00 00 01 02 01 47 00 00
> 0x0010:         00 00 00 00 a2 49 01 00 79 11 7f 00 00 00 00 00
>                             ^^ bit 5 here
> 0x0020:         00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 0x0030:         00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 0x0040:         00 00 00 00 00 00 3d 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 0x0050:         00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 0x0060:         e4 00 3f 40 09 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 0x0070:         00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f7 fe
>
> Looks like this laptop is probably WoL-capable even on battery.
>
> Measured the current from AC adapter:
> around 20mA with WoL inactive (shut down from Windows or by power button in
> GRUB) around 40mA with WoL active (shut down from Linux)
>
> So to work-around this problem, users must disable WoL manually on each
> boot.
>
> Maybe the driver should ignore the EEPROM WoL bit on Toshiba susbsystem
> IDs? Or completely, like Windows driver does?

Suggested patch:

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
index 781065e..bd4fe64 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
@@ -2949,13 +2949,6 @@ static int e100_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Wol magic packet can be enabled from eeprom */
-	if ((nic->mac >= mac_82558_D101_A4) &&
-	   (nic->eeprom[eeprom_id] & eeprom_id_wol)) {
-		nic->flags |= wol_magic;
-		device_set_wakeup_enable(&pdev->dev, true);
-	}
-
 	/* ack any pending wake events, disable PME */
 	pci_pme_active(pdev, false);
 
-- 
Ondrej Zary

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