linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:21:30 +0100
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

Tino Keitel writes:
 > Hi folks,
 > 
 > with 2.6.24-rc8, Wake On LAN doesn't work anymore as it used to with
 > 2.6.23 on my Mac mini Core Duo. I saw that this was reported in
 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9721 and on netdev a patch
 > for the sky2 driver was sent by Stephen Hemminger. This patch fixed WOL
 > for me after applying it to 2.6.24-rc8.
 > 
 > However, it seems as the patch never made it into the kernel. Instead,
 > the commit that was suspected to break WOL
 > (84cd2dfb04d23a961c5f537baa243fa54d0987ac) was reverted
 > (be63a21c9573fbf88106ff0f030da5974551257b).
 > 
 > Now I tried the 2.6.24 release and noticed that WOL is still broken.
 > I'll be happy to test any patches that can make it into 2.6.24.1.

1. Wrong mailing list; use netdev (@vger) instead.
2. The reverted commit had much much more serious consequences than
   "wol doesn't work", it actually caused BIOS hangs and failed reboots.
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