Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:08:01 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [REGRESSION][PATCH] Fix an old sky2 WOL regression |
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:40:30 +0100 Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de> wrote:
> Sky2 Wake on LAN is broken since February 2010 on a number of systems. > Yes. More than two years. > > We know about the problem and the cause since October 2010 > (Bugzilla bug #19492). It´s commit 87b09f1f25cd1e01d7c50bf423c7fe33027d7511. > > Stephen, David: You signed off that commit. > > Andrew: You called it a regression in October 2010. > > It has been proposed to revert the commit that caused the problem. > Nothing happened. > > I proposed to re-establish the old code for dmi_match()ed systems. > Without success. > > Now it is proposed to re-establish the old code as a configuration option. > If nothing happens again I will propose a module parameter ;-) > > Stephen, I don´t want to be a pain in the neck, and it is not my intention > to offend you by my "attitude". But I simply cannot understand why this > know regression is not fixed. The bit we talk about is documented, > and in fact it was set for a number of kernel versions unconditionally. > Nobody complained about ruined hardware or minor problems. > > The systems affected are old enough that no manufacturer cares about > them, but they are still quite usable for a lot of jobs (kernel 3.3 compile > time here is below 15 minutes). > > If there is a problem in the kernel and if we do know an easy solution, > that solution should be commited to the kernel, no matter what is written > in some random documentation, no matter if we could blame some > BIOS authors. That´s the way Linux works - at least I thought so. > > cu, > Knut
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