On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 20:21 +0100, Rick Jones wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 09:06:45 -0500 Dan Williams > <[email protected]> wrote: > > .... I've got vague hand-wavy > > plans to get rid of the deps on pm-utils entirely, or at least move > them > > into NetworkManager for the time being. No idea when that would > happen > > though; but if somebody wanted to spearhead it that would be > awesome. > > First step would be convincing pm-utils to drop the NM > suspend/resume > > scripts, and then move them into NetworkManager git for both 0.7 and > > master. Next up, we try to figure out how much work we really do > need > > to do for suspend/resume; maybe we can get uevents for them instead > of > > relying on pm-utils or something. > > It seems to me this would be a good opportunity to handle WOL > properly. I've never been able to get WOL to work, and messing around > with ethtool shouldn't be necessary anyway. It seems to be something > that just isn't easy on Linux. If NM were to take control of > suspending the network devices then it should be easy for it to set up > the conditions for WOL to work. > > Another good reason to press ahead with this?
I wouldn't expect WOL to work at the driver/hardware level before 2.6.32 anyway given that there's only recently been a lot of work on it upstream. I'm not sure of the specifics though, since it seems like we'd need some sort of communication between the card/driver and userspace to alert NM or the supplicant to *why* the machine was woken up, and potentially what to do in response to that. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
