From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Igor Russkikh <Igor.Russkikh@aquantia.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Dmitry Bezrukov <Dmitry.Bezrukov@aquantia.com>
Subject: [v2,net-next,19/21] net: usb: aqc111: Add support for wake on LAN by MAGIC packet
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:30:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181114213038.GG32305@lunn.ch> (raw)
> We've considered that, but then thought about the following case:
>
> After such a sleep state where partner's capabilities were considered,
> user may move with the unit and replug it into different link partner with
> other, incompatible speed mask. That will anyway lead to wol link failure.
WOL for a nomadic device? Is that even a real use case?
Anyway, looking at the link partner capabilities is just really a
corner case, that the LP only supports 1G. Do such devices exist?
So skipping this is fine. But if you use phylib, you pretty much get
it for free if you want it.
Andrew
next reply other threads:[~2018-11-14 21:30 UTC|newest]
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2018-11-14 21:30 Andrew Lunn [this message]
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2018-11-14 7:56 [v2,net-next,19/21] net: usb: aqc111: Add support for wake on LAN by MAGIC packet Igor Russkikh
2018-11-13 21:02 Andrew Lunn
2018-11-13 14:45 Igor Russkikh
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