FWIW, in e1000e the PHY is already powered down when the interface is brought down if WoL and manageability are disabled. There is an issue where the PHY remains powered on when the driver is removed for which I have a patch already queued up here at Intel.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:09 AM >To: Naohiro Ooiwa >Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Brandeburg, >Jesse; Ronciak, John; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Andrew Morton; >[email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: the power down when running >ifdown command > >On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:23:43 +0900 >Naohiro Ooiwa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Naohiro Ooiwa wrote: >> > Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> >> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:39:52 +0900 >> >> Naohiro Ooiwa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Does this work with Wake On Lan? >> > >> > Yes, it works WOL. >> >> Sorry, I made a mistake. >> The WOL doesn't work when my patch applied to kernel. >> I wasn't myself. >> >> I consider the WOL and I will resent the patch. >> Thank you for your point. >> >> >> thanks, >> Naohiro Ooiwa > > >Good, thank you for checking. I like the idea of powering down the >PHY. Some of the drivers have shutdown hooks to power PHY back on >during shutdown to enable WOL. > > >-- > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30- >Day >trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >on >what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >_______________________________________________ >E1000-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
