WOL filters specifications.

[John W. Linville]

Adding S-o-b's...

This patch is nearly 2 years old -- is there a real problem here?

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 04:52:01PM +0200, Alberto Panizzo wrote:
> The patch 582c1b538fb47a2d6a41dbdadb031086c49446c1 introduced
> (other than the ability to wake on specific criteria) structures
> that are supposed to be used to specify fine grained wol roules.
> Those rules tells the wifi chip to filter the received Ethernet packets
> to be used for the wake event.
> 
> The question is, why those structures are so different from the
> v5.1 firmware specifications?(pag 131: MrvlIETypes_HostSleepFilterType1
> linked from pag 85: 5.13.3.3 CMD_802_11_HOST_SLEEP_CFG)
> 
> Is the 5.1 fw specs too old? or are these structures not valid?
> Looking at the Marvell driver the Ethernet rules shall be specified
> as written in the 5.1 firmware specs.
> 
> Thanks in advance for all suggestions.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Alberto!
> 
>         Be Persistent!
>                 - Greg Kroah-Hartman (FOSDEM 2010)
> 
> 

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