Re: Problems with remote-wakeup settings

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On Saturday 06 March 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > > It's not difficult in theory to tie together the WoL setting and the
> > > wakeup flag:
> > > 
> > > 	If ethtool changes the WoL setting, the driver's ioctl handler
> > > 	should make the corresponding change to the wakeup flag.
> > > 
> > > 	If ethtool queries the WoL setting, the ioctl handler should
> > > 	check the wakeup flag.  If the flag is off, it should report 
> > > 	that WoL is disabled; if the flag is on, it should report that 
> > > 	WoL is enabled.  (The same check should be made in the suspend
> > > 	routine.)
> > 
> > That's done this way already in all drivers I know, but we need a hook
> > from wake_store() back to the driver.
> 
> What for?  wake_store() can't be called during a sleep transition
> (because tasks are frozen) or while the system is asleep.  And if it is
> called at any other time, the driver doesn't need to know until either
> its ioctl handler or its suspend method runs.

Right.

That means, though, that the network adapter drivers' "get WoL" routines
should check should_wakeup too.  They don't do that right now, but IMO it's
reasonable to request that they be modified.

Adding netdev to the Cc list.

Rafael
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