netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "alx: remove WoL support"

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Date:   Sun, 20 May 2018 23:18:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     acelan.kao@...onical.com
Cc:     jcliburn@...il.com, chris.snook@...il.com, rakesh@...era.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, emily.chien@...onical.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "alx: remove WoL support"

From: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@...onical.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2018 11:14:00 +0800

> We are willing to fix the issue, but we don't have a machine to
> reproduce it, and the WoL feature has been removed 5 years ago, it's
> hard to find those buggy machines.

Have you bothered to ask the person who did the revert?

> WoL is a feature that is only used by a very small group of people,
> and the wake up issue looks like only happens on some
> platforms. Which means only small part of the group of people are
> affected.

One of those people was the wireless networking stack maintainer.

> So, it's not a serious issue worth to remove it from alx driver.

I disagree.

You must fix the regression solved by the revert, before adding
WoL support back to the driver.

I'm not going to say this again.

Thank you.