Re: [PATCH 2/2] alx: add disable_wol paramenter

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Apr 09 2018 - 08:39:26 EST


On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 07:35:14PM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> The WoL feature was reported broken and will lead to
> the system resume immediately after suspending.
> This symptom is not happening on every system, so adding
> disable_wol option and disable WoL by default to prevent the issue from
> happening again.

> const char alx_drv_name[] = "alx";
>
> +/* disable WoL by default */
> +bool disable_wol = 1;
> +module_param(disable_wol, bool, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_wol, "Disable Wake on Lan feature");
> +

Hi AceLan

This seems like you are papering over the cracks. And module
parameters are not liked.

Please try to find the real problem.

Andrew