Re: suspend/resume and 3c59x

["christophe barbé" <christophe.barbe.ml@online.fr>]

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I am trying to understand where is the problem.
One thing I'm sure right now is that the 3c59x as a problem.
After a card remove/insert cycle the option enable_wol is no more
enabled.

Christophe

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:13:04AM -0500, christophe barbé wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:11:44AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:02:52 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > Just for the record: Both Christophe's 3c<mumble> and my 3c556B
> > > mini-PCI NIC failed to survive APM resumes in 2.4.17.  But something
> > > outside the 3c59x driver got fixed somewhere in the 2.4.18-pre series,
> > > and resume works OK in 2.4.18.
> > 
> > We now notify (and wait for a response from) user mode processes about
> > the pending suspend BEFORE we notify the drivers.  We used to do this the
> > other way around (which was never correct - mea culpa).
> > 
> > This MAY have changed the behaviour of the drivers ...
> 
> Unfortunately after a few experiments my 3c59x does not resume correctly
> with 2.4.18. I don't understand why but sometimes it takes a few seconds
> to return in a good state after a suspend/resume cycle and sometimes (at
> least one time) the card stay in a bad state.
> 
> Would it be possible that the driver is never notified that the machine
> is going in a suspend mode ? 
> When you said 'we now notify ...' the 'we' stand for apm ?
> 
> Looking in the driver, the enable_wol (now I know that wol means Wake up
> on Lan, and I would prefer let this option disabled but it also turn on
> pm stuff as Andrew told me) enables few acpi call.
> 
> Andrew : Is your card back immediately after resuming ?
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cheers,
> > Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
> > http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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