On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 10:36:44 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:44:24 -0500
Jeff Garzik [off-list ref] wrote:

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Stephen Hemminger wrote:

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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.

Some computers even don't have such a BIOS settings (like my Mac mini).

Btw., I just built 2.6.20-rc3 with patches 4 and 5 and wake on LAN now
works. Thanks for your work.

Regards,
Tino