netdev - Re: atl1: use magic packet wake-on-lan only

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Message-ID: <49188091.3090709@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:42:25 -0500
From:	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>
To:	"J. K. Cliburn" <jcliburn@...il.com>
CC:	jeff@...zik.org, Jie.yang@...eros.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: atl1: use magic packet wake-on-lan only

J. K. Cliburn wrote:
> atl1: use magic packet wake-on-lan only
> 
> Of the various WOL options provided in include/linux/ethtool.h, the
> L1 NIC supports only magic packet.  Remove all options except magic
> packet from the atl1 driver.

Technically, we could implement the rest via the programmable 
pattern-matching hardware, but that would be an immense amount of work.

-- Chris
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