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Date:   Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:25:53 +0200
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net: core: add member wol_enabled to struct
 net_device

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 08:09:48PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Add flag wol_enabled to struct net_device indicating whether
> Wake-on-LAN is enabled. As first user phy_suspend() will use it to
> decide whether PHY can be suspended or not.
> 
> Fixes: f1e911d5d0df ("r8169: add basic phylib support")
> Fixes: e8cfd9d6c772 ("net: phy: call state machine synchronously in phy_stop")
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 +++
>  net/core/ethtool.c        | 9 ++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index 1cbbf77a6..f5f1f1450 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -1756,6 +1756,8 @@ enum netdev_priv_flags {
>   *			switch driver and used to set the phys state of the
>   *			switch port.
>   *
> + *	@wol_enabled:	Wake-on-LAN is enabled
> + *
>   *	FIXME: cleanup struct net_device such that network protocol info
>   *	moves out.
>   */
> @@ -2039,6 +2041,7 @@ struct net_device {
>  	struct lock_class_key	*qdisc_tx_busylock;
>  	struct lock_class_key	*qdisc_running_key;
>  	bool			proto_down;
> +	unsigned		wol_enabled:1;
>  };
>  #define to_net_dev(d) container_of(d, struct net_device, dev)
>  

As there is no bitfield yet, this would add 4 bytes to struct net_device.
How about using a bit in net_device::priv_flags like IFF_RXFH_CONFIGURED
in ethtool_set_rxfh_indir() and ethtool_set_rxfh()?

Michal Kubecek