On Monday 10 November 2014, Francois Romieu wrote: > Ondrej Zary <li...@rainbow-software.org> : > [...] > > > > Looks like this laptop is probably WoL-capable even on battery. > > > > > > Measured the current from AC adapter: > > > around 20mA with WoL inactive (shut down from Windows or by power > > > button in GRUB) around 40mA with WoL active (shut down from Linux) > > > > > > So to work-around this problem, users must disable WoL manually on each > > > boot. > > Or configure udev so that ethtool disables WoL.
This is inconsistent with other (non-Intel) ethernet drivers where users need to use ethtool only if they want to enable WoL. Installing ethtool and writing udev rules just to make a laptop shutdown properly is not very user-friendly. > The current policy has been here for ages. Some users may rely on it. > > There must be some strong rationale for their setup to have to be changed. Yes, that might be a problem. -- Ondrej Zary -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
