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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: afleming@gmail.com
Cc: mcarlson@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	mchan@broadcom.com, andy@greyhouse.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] tg3: Allow WOL for phylib controlled Broadcom phys
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:54:37 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081103.165437.02556544.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2acbd3e40811031509q3d3005e5g9fedd842a1d08a52@mail.gmail.com>

From: "Andy Fleming" <afleming@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:09:34 -0600

> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com> wrote:
> > This patch allows WOL to be enabled for Broadcom phys under phylib
> > control.  The only exception is the AC131, which has a completely
> > different register set.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
> 
> Code to enable WOL sounds like the sort of thing we'd want in the PHY
> driver itself, rather than a manual setup done from the NIC driver.
> Clearly, we need support for WOL on both in order for it to work,
> though, so I can see two solutions off the top of my head:
 ...

I've applied Matt's patch, but I hope that you two will continue
the dialogue about this issue.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-04  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-03 10:13 [PATCH 09/15] tg3: Allow WOL for phylib controlled Broadcom phys Matt Carlson
2008-11-03 23:09 ` Andy Fleming
2008-11-04  0:54   ` David Miller [this message]
2008-11-04  2:46   ` Matt Carlson

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