netdev - Re: WoL broken in r8169.c since kernel 4.19

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Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:02:10 +0100
From:   Marc Haber <mh+netdev@...schlus.de>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WoL broken in r8169.c since kernel 4.19

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 07:49:56AM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> thanks a lot for the detailed analysis. That this ethtool sequence
> 
> ethtool -s <if> wol d
> ethtool -s <if> wol g
> 
> helps makes me think that the following patch should help too.
> Could you please test?

That patch didn't apply cleanly because the rtl_init_one in kernel
4.20.4 is missing the INIT_WORK call at this place.

And it doesn't change the behavior, the two ethtool calls are needed so
that the host wakes up from suspend to ram on a magic packet.

Greetings
Marc

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