[PATCH 0/3] WOL: Add Wake On LAN support

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:44 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Tue 14. Aug - 14:34:11, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:21 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> > > The following patch series adds support for Wake On LAN (WOL) to HAL. In
> > > this context, adding Wake On LAN support means adding support for ethtool,
> > > which is supported by various drivers.
> > > 
> > > I was surprised to see for how many systems this actually works. The
> > > common problem is just that it's not configured correctly on most distros,
> > > and that there is no easy way to enable/disable it from the desktop if
> > > supported.
> > > 
> > > The patches add the following new interface to any network device with the
> > > capability 'net.80203':
> > > 
> > >  org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan
> > > 
> > > The interface provides the following methods:
> > > 
> > >  GetSupported(void)
> > 
> > As whether the device supports it is unlikely to change, why not make
> > this a property?
> > 
> > You'd probably need to add the detection in the coldplug routine of HAL.
> 
> But it might change underneath us...

What would change? The device name? Or whether the device supports it?

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>