From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 15:48:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061103154820.37f05a13@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454BD44D.2060005@intel.com>
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:44:13 -0800
Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > It doesn't seem like a good idea for a network device to wake the system
> > if it is down.
>
> before suspend existed this was the only useful case for WoL. Why does it not seem a
> good idea to wake up a machine that was shutdown (and thus the interface `downed`) ?
>
> Auke
It seems odd because that means you can never make a device fully deaf.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-03 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-03 23:20 Wake On Lan device semantics Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-03 23:44 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-03 23:48 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-11-04 1:35 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-03 23:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-04 1:36 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-04 1:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-04 1:44 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-03 23:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-04 0:02 ` David Miller
2006-11-04 0:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-04 1:53 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-04 0:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-04 1:02 ` David Miller
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