netdev - Re: drivers/net/usb/asix: bug in asix_get

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Date:	Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:03:43 +1100
From:	Eugene <elubarsky@...il.com>
To:	Grant Grundler <grundler@...omium.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Freddy Xin <freddy@...x.com.tw>,
	Allan Chou <allan@...x.com.tw>
Subject: Re: drivers/net/usb/asix: bug in asix_get_wol

Hi Grant,


The problem is that, as it's currently written, asix_get_wol always
returns that wake-on-lan is disabled.


Cheers,
Eugene

On 12 December 2011 10:29, Grant Grundler <grundler@...omium.org> wrote:
> [+freddy/allan @ ASIX]
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Eugene <elubarsky@...il.com> wrote:
>> Dear kernel devs,
>>
>> Thanks for the commit at
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ad1438f025ed8d1e4e95a796ca7f0ad5a22c378,
>> It successfully stops my adapter from dying when wake-on-lan gets
>> enabled.
>
> Hi Eugene!
> thanks for the "it works!" report.
>
>> However, I've noticed that it has broken asix_get_wol - the
>> lines
>>
>>       if (opt & AX_MONITOR_LINK)
>>               wolinfo->wolopts |= WAKE_PHY;
>>       if (opt & AX_MONITOR_MAGIC)
>>               wolinfo->wolopts |= WAKE_MAGIC;
>>
>> have been accidentally removed.
>
> This wasn't by accident. This comment in the commit log perhaps
> doesn't explain sufficiently:
> |    Remove MONITOR_MODE. In this mode, Received packets are not buffered when
> | the remote wakeup is enabled.
>
>> The vendor driver has them, and I've
>> successfully tested a kernel with these lines included. The change is
>> too small for me to bother sending in a properly formatted patch...
>
> "Too small"? No such thing. :)
>
> cheers,
> grant
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