From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] sky2 driver update (v1.11)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 10:36:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070101103644.02544c46@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459197B8.6010403@pobox.com>
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:44:24 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Patches are in order of severity. 1-3 are bug fixes, 4 is a cleanup
> > of the power state code, and 5 adds wake on lan support.
> >
> > IMHO, it is bad security policy to allow wake on lan to enabled by default.
> > The sky2 driver doesn't do WOL until enabled with ethtool.
>
> While in general I agree with you on the security principle, this seems
> like it might break working setups.
>
> WOL is a partnership between the motherboard and NIC. The motherboard
> must support WOL, or its useless. And since the motherboard must
> support WOL, it normally has an on/off switch in BIOS.
>
> As such, you're overriding the admin's chosen BIOS setting here.
>
> Jeff
But there is no way to read the BIOS settings.
If BIOS was being smart enough to actually, setup the chip, then I can
look at chip registers on startup and see if it is enabled there.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-02 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-20 21:06 [patch 0/6] sky2 driver update (v1.11) Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-20 21:06 ` [patch 1/6] sky2: dual port NAPI problem Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-26 21:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-20 21:06 ` [patch 2/6] sky2: power management/MSI workaround Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-20 21:06 ` [patch 3/6] sky2: phy power down needs PCI config write enabled Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-20 21:06 ` [patch 4/6] sky2: better power state management Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-26 21:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-20 21:06 ` [patch 5/6] sky2: add Wake On Lan support Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-20 21:06 ` [patch 6/6] sky2: version 1.11 Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-26 21:44 ` [patch 0/6] sky2 driver update (v1.11) Jeff Garzik
2007-01-01 18:36 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-01-02 19:10 ` Tino Keitel
2007-01-13 13:03 ` Tino Keitel
2007-01-15 18:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-01-15 19:12 ` Tino Keitel
2007-01-02 21:52 ` Gerd v. Egidy
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