On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 15:54 -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 10:52 +0300, Teodor MICU wrote: > > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 > > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11) > > It is 5708 B1, and due to some hardware limitations, ethtool initiated > WoL is not supported. [...] Well we knew that much! Is the problem that the system firmware 'owns' the WoL control registers so the host can't safely change them? Is it possible to *read* the WoL configuration, if not to change it? (If even that is not possible, the correct thing to do might be for ETHTOOL_GWOL to return 'don't know' (EOPNOTSUPP) for this device. But since ethtool_ops::get_wol (and various other operations) can't return an error, that would require you to define a separate instance of ethtool_ops with get_wol = NULL. I should look at fixing that...) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality.
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