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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Martin.Leisner@xerox.com
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	martyleisner@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: WOL with flex filters, reflecting it in /sys
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:22:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091001.142257.125105313.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76FA3B279DD9DA48896E2B404944957203C09587@USA7061MS02.na.xerox.net>

From: "Leisner, Martin" <Martin.Leisner@xerox.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 13:55:03 -0700

> What I'm thinking of is a hierarchy in /sys/classes/net/<device>/wol/
> 
> wol/
>    /flex-filters
>       /0
>            data -- hex data to match
>            mask -- string of 1 and 0 -- if 1, the data is valid in the
> bit 
>                    position
>       ...
>       /n
> 	   data
>          mask
>   /wake_up_packet
>   /traditional --r/w (0/1)
>      /magic_packet
>      /arp
>      /unicast
>      /multicast
>      /broadcast
>      /phy

That's a pretty hairy interface for users to learn.  Are you
really sure this is nicer than adding this facility to ethtool? :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-01 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-01 20:55 WOL with flex filters, reflecting it in /sys Leisner, Martin
2009-10-01 21:22 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-01 21:23 ` [linux-pm] " Rafael J. Wysocki

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