From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wake On Lan device semantics
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:51:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454BD5FD.2030502@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061103152025.5d27bd8d@freekitty>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I am working on getting WOL to work on sky2 (and then skge). But in the process I
> noticed that the semantics of WOL seems to be device dependent. I assume that WOL
> should work when device is suspended. But some drivers also support WOL when
> the device is down (or even removed).
[...]
> It doesn't seem like a good idea for a network device to wake the system
> if it is down. Maybe if the kernel fully supported dormant, maybe, but
> when device is down it shouldn't impact the system.
You seem to be muddling "device", "driver", and "system" together.
The purpose of WOL is being able to turn on a system remotely, if it is
in a power-off or sleep state.
So, if the system is -on- and the interface is down and/or driver is
unloaded, are you saying WOL is a problem somehow?
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-03 23:51 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
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 [this message]
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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