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