Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: ioctl: account for sopass diff in set_wol

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Jun 12 2023 - 18:29:23 EST


On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 02:37:00PM -0700, Justin Chen wrote:
> sopass won't be set if wolopt doesn't change. This means the following
> will fail to set the correct sopass.
> ethtool -s eth0 wol s sopass 11:22:33:44:55:66
> ethtool -s eth0 wol s sopass 22:44:55:66:77:88
>
> Make sure we call into the driver layer set_wol if sopass is different.
>
> Fixes: 55b24334c0f2 ("ethtool: ioctl: improve error checking for set_wol")
> Signed-off-by: Justin Chen <justin.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Note: Tagged "Fixes" patch has not hit rc yet.
>
> net/ethtool/ioctl.c | 3 ++-

Hi Justin

Does the netlink version get this correct?

And just for my own curiosity, why are you so interested in the ioctl
version, which is deprecated and not used by modern versions of
ethtool?

Andrew