I am working on getting WOL to work on sky2 (and then skge). But in the process I noticed that the semantics of WOL seems to be device dependent. I assume that WOL should work when device is suspended. But some drivers also support WOL when the device is down (or even removed).
Now I know some distro's like Ubuntu take down and then remove every network device on suspend. That's their problem, if they don't want to use suspend as intended because they want to handle broken hardware, that's their problem. It doesn't seem like a good idea for a network device to wake the system if it is down. Maybe if the kernel fully supported dormant, maybe, but when device is down it shouldn't impact the system. -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
