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SubjectRe: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:48:55 +0100
Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:21:30 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > Tino Keitel writes:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > with 2.6.24-rc8, Wake On LAN doesn't work anymore as it used to with
> > > 2.6.23 on my Mac mini Core Duo. I saw that this was reported in
> > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9721 and on netdev a patch
> > > for the sky2 driver was sent by Stephen Hemminger. This patch fixed WOL
> > > for me after applying it to 2.6.24-rc8.
> > >
> > > However, it seems as the patch never made it into the kernel. Instead,
> > > the commit that was suspected to break WOL
> > > (84cd2dfb04d23a961c5f537baa243fa54d0987ac) was reverted
> > > (be63a21c9573fbf88106ff0f030da5974551257b).
> > >
> > > Now I tried the 2.6.24 release and noticed that WOL is still broken.
> > > I'll be happy to test any patches that can make it into 2.6.24.1.
> >
> > 1. Wrong mailing list; use netdev (@vger) instead.
>
> Done.
>
> > 2. The reverted commit had much much more serious consequences than
> > "wol doesn't work", it actually caused BIOS hangs and failed reboots.
>
> Yes, but even with the reverted commit, WOL still doesn't work. I just
> tried the patch from the netdev mailing list with the 2.6.24 release
> version and now WOL works for me.

Patch went to Jeff, but never made it into 2.6.24. The timing was just wrong.

--
Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>



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