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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 10:36:44 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org> To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] sky2 driver update (v1.11) On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:44:24 -0500 Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Patches are in order of severity. 1-3 are bug fixes, 4 is a cleanup > > of the power state code, and 5 adds wake on lan support. > > > > IMHO, it is bad security policy to allow wake on lan to enabled by default. > > The sky2 driver doesn't do WOL until enabled with ethtool. > > While in general I agree with you on the security principle, this seems > like it might break working setups. > > WOL is a partnership between the motherboard and NIC. The motherboard > must support WOL, or its useless. And since the motherboard must > support WOL, it normally has an on/off switch in BIOS. > > As such, you're overriding the admin's chosen BIOS setting here. > > Jeff But there is no way to read the BIOS settings. If BIOS was being smart enough to actually, setup the chip, then I can look at chip registers on startup and see if it is enabled there. -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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