RE: [PATCH v2] net: add new QCA alx ethernet driver

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 01:55 +0000, Huang, Xiong wrote:
> Thanks for all your feedback. I have another question need your help.
> 
> This NIC has special function that could receive/transmit simple
> packet when it's in sleep (D3) state.
> It will help someone wakeup his/her machine even it's behind a router.
> This function is disabled by default. To enable it, the NIC should be
> configured by app.
> My question is which interface can I select to configure(write to) the
> NIC register ?

There are standard operations to configure Wake-on-LAN (commands
ETHTOOL_{G,S}WOL, driver methods ethtool_ops::{get,set}_wol) and WOL
modes including MagicPacket.

If you want to implement a more sophisticated packet matching mode that
requires more details than struct ethtool_wolinfo, then you may need to
define new operations.

Ben.

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