netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: more driver shutdown WoL regression.

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Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:02:24 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
CC:	hayeswang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	'Stefan Becker' <chemobejk@...il.com>,
	'David Miller' <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: more driver shutdown WoL regression.

On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 11:41 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> hayeswang <hayeswang@...ltek.com> :
> [...]
> > I find that the magic packet which I send is the broadcast packet, and the one
> > which you send is the unicast packet. That is, you could wake up the system by
> > using broadcast magic packet for the previous chips without the patch. However,
> > if you prefer to unicast magic packet, this patch is necessary. Besides, no
> > matter broadcast or unicast magic packet, the patch is necessary for 8105,
> > 8168e, and later chips.
> 
> Ok, it makes some sense now.
> 
> I am inclined to enable a broad understanding of ethtool WAKE_MAGIC
> feature as AMD's magic packet white paper does not limit it to
> broadcast packets and explicitely quotes unicast and multicast.
> Ben (and others), any opinion ?
[...]

Sorry, I've never looked into WoL in detail so I'm not sure quite what
the intended semantics of WAKE_MAGIC are.

Ben.

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