Re: IFCAP_WOL

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:29:20PM +0900, SAITOH Masanobu wrote:
> 
>  Hello.
> 
>  As I wrote in the commit message for if_wm.c rev. 1.203. I've succeeded
> waking up from suspend(S3) by the Magic Packet. I tested on my ThinkPad X61.
> 
>  The function is disabled by default because it may wastes a battery's
> capacity in a notebook.

I agree that turning it off for a notebook is a good idea.

With a desktop adapter and netbsd-5 it seems that shutdown -p does not turn
the power off because I still see the active led on the adapater and the switch.

> So I think it's a good solution to introduce FreeBSD's
> IFCAP_WOL to NetBSD.

What is that?

>  Any objections?

Too which proposal?

Bernd