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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html