Suspend vs Network Traffic - blockers

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Tue Aug 12 15:49:45 EDT 2008


Hi,

   >> We are waiting for Marvell for an updated firmware that implements
   >> a simpler API to configure wake-on-wlan signatures.  The proposed
   >> API was really hard to use and would require additional changes to
   >> support IPv6.  Before pushing this upstream we wanted to have a
   >> cleaner driver/fw interface.
   >> 
   >> Marvell will implement the new wow-signature API with the next
   >> firmware release (22p18)

   > OK, so I'll not push the existing patches into 8.2 and we can roll
   > this into 8.2.1 when all the bits are ready.

Does this mean we'll be without wake-on-ARP for 8.2?  Is there something
we can do to avoid that?

Thanks,

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>



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