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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@canonical.com>
Cc: Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@gmail.com>,
	Chris Snook <chris.snook@gmail.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@tuxera.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] alx: add disable_wol paramenter
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 14:39:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180409123910.GB31060@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1523273714-17264-2-git-send-email-acelan.kao@canonical.com>

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 07:35:14PM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> The WoL feature was reported broken and will lead to
> the system resume immediately after suspending.
> This symptom is not happening on every system, so adding
> disable_wol option and disable WoL by default to prevent the issue from
> happening again.

>  const char alx_drv_name[] = "alx";
>  
> +/* disable WoL by default */
> +bool disable_wol = 1;
> +module_param(disable_wol, bool, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_wol, "Disable Wake on Lan feature");
> +

Hi AceLan

This seems like you are papering over the cracks. And module
parameters are not liked.

Please try to find the real problem.

       Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-09 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-09 11:35 [PATCH 1/2] Revert "alx: remove WoL support" AceLan Kao
2018-04-09 11:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] alx: add disable_wol paramenter AceLan Kao
2018-04-09 12:39   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2018-04-09 14:50     ` David Miller
2018-04-10  2:40       ` AceLan Kao
2018-04-24  3:45         ` AceLan Kao
2018-05-09  2:40           ` AceLan Kao
2018-05-09 13:45             ` Andrew Lunn
2018-05-10  5:58               ` AceLan Kao
2018-05-10 12:34                 ` Andrew Lunn
2018-05-14  1:55                   ` AceLan Kao

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