Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 03:21:44 EST


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.
2. The reverted commit had much much more serious consequences than
"wol doesn't work", it actually caused BIOS hangs and failed reboots.
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