netdev - small forcedeth WoL fix

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Message-ID: <20070601172217.686a0d5e@mann-lx.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:22:17 -0700
From:	Tim Mann <mann@...are.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mann@...are.com
Subject: small forcedeth WoL fix

I happened to notice that a system with an NVidia NIC using the
forcedeth driver won't wake-on-LAN if the interface was in promiscuous
mode when you power off.  By experiment, it looks like
the hardware needs to have NvRegPacketFilterFlags set to
NVREG_PFF_ALWAYS|NVREG_PFF_MYADDR (i.e., receive unicast packets to my
address) in order for WoL to work.  At any rate, the attached patch
fixes the problem for me.

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Tim Mann  work: mann@...are.com  home: tim@...-mann.org
          http://www.vmware.com  http://tim-mann.org

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