netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: Enable WOL from Magic Packet by default

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Message-ID: <20120215001342.GA11453@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:13:42 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, hayeswang@...ltek.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: Enable WOL from Magic Packet by default

Sameer Nanda <snanda@...omium.org> :
> Set the WOL config registers to only enable WOL from magic packet by
> default. Without this change in place, the WOL config register
> settings on warm reboot come up in an inconsistent state since these
> registers don't get reset on a warm reboot.

I am not completely convinced, especially as the change of behavior
could be noticed.

Can you elaborate why the previous WoL settings should be ignored ?

-- 
Ueimor
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