Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 6 authors, 2008-06-27

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix forcedeth hibernate/wake-on-lan problems

From: David Brownell <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-27 21:32:27
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On Monday 26 May 2008, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
The platform_enable_wakeup() hook is still there, but unused.
The patches to support it (still) haven't been merged.

AFAICS this patch should solve the "'ethtool -s eth0 wol g' doesn't
suffice, I also have to write magic values into /proc/acpi/wakeup"
issue.
Yeah; under ACPI, PCI does not act like it does everywhere else.
Nor does wakeup in general.

After sending patches to fix that for a couple years now, I'm
well past being tired of doing that.  I suggest it's overdue for
the ACPI team to get this part of their act together.

That is:  either start merging those patches, possibly with updates
to handle broken hardware better; or rewrite them; ... or just say
explicitly the message I've been receiving:  "Linux ACPI will never
support wakeup the way the rest of Linux can and does".  (And the
"why" should be something reasonable.)
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