Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:39:06 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: forcedeth - WOL [SOLVED] |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:24:47 +0200 Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2006.09.28 04:04:38 +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > On 2006.09.27 18:36:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:01:33 +0200 > > > Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Do we know if this reversal *always* happens with this driver, or only > > > > > > > sometimes? > > > > > > > > I only tried 2.6.18 twice this time, but when I wrote my own tool to do > > > > it, I had probably 20-30 power on -> ethtool -> poweroff cycles before I > > > > decided to look into Bugzilla. As it looked like being fixed already and > > > > I did use the nForce NIC for testing only, I didn't spend any further > > > > time on it back then. > > > > > > What I'm angling towards is: "is this just a driver bug"? > > > > I just took a peek at the code. > > > > The version on bugzilla (last attachment, comment #22), which was > > reported to work correctly, has the MAC address reversal hardcoded. > > The driver in 2.6.18 has some logic to detect if it should reverse the > > MAC address. So it looks like a hardware oddity/bug that the driver > > wants to fix but fails. I'll see what happens if I force address > > reversal and if I can decipher anything, but probably someone else will > > have to cast the runes... > > OK, please excuse me wasting your time, it's late over here... I've > actually been looking at Linus' git tree (pulled yesterday) while > writing that mail, not 2.6.18. > 2.6.18 does _not_ contain the address reversal detection. > Using the git tree instead of 2.6.18 WOL works as expected, without > having to reverse the MAC address. >
hm, OK, thanks. Ayaz, do you think 5070d3408405ae1941f259acac7a9882045c3be4 is a suitable thing for 2.6.18.x? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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