Fix an old sky2 WOL regression
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Dear Knut,
I am sorry it took a while to try it due to other commitments, however I can now confirm the patch works on my ASUS P5LD2 motherboard.
Many thanks
Nicola
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Sky2 Wake on LAN is broken since February 2010 on a number of
systems.
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Yes. More than two years.
We know about the problem and
the cause since October 2010
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(Bugzilla bug #19492). It´s commit
87b09f1f25cd1e01d7c50bf423c7fe33027d7511.
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Stephen, David: You
signed off that commit.
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Andrew: You called it a regression in
October 2010.
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It has been proposed to revert the commit that caused
the problem.
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Nothing happened.
I proposed to re-establish the old
code for dmi_match()ed systems.
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Without success.
Now it is
proposed to re-establish the old code as a configuration option.
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If
nothing happens again I will propose a module parameter ;-)
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Stephen, I don´t want to be a pain in the neck, and it is not my intention
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to offend you by my "attitude". But I simply cannot
understand why this
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know regression is not fixed. The bit we talk
about is documented,
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and in fact it was set for a number of kernel
versions unconditionally.
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Nobody complained about ruined hardware or
minor problems.
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The systems affected are old enough that no
manufacturer cares about
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them, but they are still quite usable for a
lot of jobs (kernel 3.3 compile
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time here is below 15 minutes).
If there is a problem in the kernel and if we do know an easy solution,
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that solution should be commited to the kernel, no matter what is
written
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in some random documentation, no matter if we could blame
some
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BIOS authors. That´s the way Linux works - at least I thought
so.
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cu,
Knut