Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751952AbWI1RKI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:10:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751953AbWI1RKI (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:10:08 -0400 Received: from hqemgate01.nvidia.com ([216.228.112.170]:17470 "EHLO HQEMGATE01.nvidia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751952AbWI1RKF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:10:05 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: forcedeth - WOL [SOLVED] Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:09:24 -0700 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20060927203906.f4fc331e.akpm@osdl.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: forcedeth - WOL [SOLVED] Thread-Index: Acbir7Rcsk0bxzlAT9+biq6uZzR5UwAcOBDw From: "Ayaz Abdulla" To: "Andrew Morton" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Steinbrink?= Cc: "Martin Filip" , , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Sep 2006 17:09:33.0289 (UTC) FILETIME=[DE319D90:01C6E320] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2935 Lines: 60 -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@osdl.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:39 PM To: Bj?rn Steinbrink Cc: Martin Filip; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Ayaz Abdulla; stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: forcedeth - WOL [SOLVED] On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:24:47 +0200 Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2006.09.28 04:04:38 +0200, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > > On 2006.09.27 18:36:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:01:33 +0200 > > > Bj?rn Steinbrink 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? There are a few forcedeth patches (mac addr, NAPI, cleanup, etc) in that commit list and the mac address changes could be put into 2.6.18.x ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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/