jerry wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 13:24 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In our next build, we will be doing two things [1]: > > > > > > 1. enabling the patch > > > 2. disabling wake-on-LAN > > > > I would not do #2. > > > > How would one disable waking up with multicast as suggested in > dlo#10856?
turn off the WAKE_ON_WLAN config setting in powerd.conf. > > > > Living up to its name, wake-on-LAN keeps the XOs awake whenever a > > > network connection is active, even when you don't really need it to > > > > I think you are misunderstanding how WOL works. I can't get into this > > topic right now, and I can't find a good reference > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN does not really fit with > > what we do). > > > > >From the log files and observations the screen never dims when connected > to any network. > > > Powerd's code and README are perhaps a good read if you want to > > understand this topic. > > > > I might be blind, but where is the README? I don't see it in the git > source. martin's just misremembering. the long-winded docs are in the powerd script itself. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/pgf/powerd/tree/powerd or /usr/sbin/powerd . the config vars are also described in /etc/powerd/powerd.conf, so you might just want to start there. paul > > > > erikos reckons that the patch won't do much [2] > > > > I agree that his patch is not enough, but I'm not convinced of his > > argument that it's almost useless... I think he is also > > misunderstanding some aspects of it :-) > > > > Well, we're testing this combination, someone has to take the lead. > Without doing anything the XOs will never use the full potential of > power saving that maybe available. > > Jerry > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =--------------------- paul fox, [email protected] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
