RE: [PATCH 1/2] e100: power down PHY if WOL is not enabled

[Jiang Wang]

I see. I will add one more check for that. Thanks.

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Jiang Wang
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Riverbed Technology
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:bhutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:08 PM
To: Jiang Wang
Cc: Jeff Kirsher; Jesse Brandeburg; Bruce Allan; Carolyn Wyborny; Don Skidmore; Greg Rose; Peter P Waskiewicz Jr; Alex Duyck; John Ronciak; e1000-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Prasanna Panchamukhi; Chaitanya Lala; Francis St. Amant; miles.ito@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] e100: power down PHY if WOL is not enabled

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 21:59 +0000, Jiang Wang wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Do you mean the WOL is enabled but PHY is powered off somehow? That 
> scenario should never happen. If WOL is enabled, there is no code to 
> power off PHY.
[...]

Initial conditions: interface up, WOL off, PHY on.

1. Bring interface down. PHY is turned off.
2. Turn WOL on.  PHY is still off, but needs to be on.

Ben.

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