Re: IFCAP_WOL

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@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.

How will this interact with pmf(9)?

How will this work on a machine without an ACPI BIOS?

>  The function is disabled by default because it may wastes a battery's
> capacity in a notebook. So I think it's a good solution to introduce FreeBSD's
> IFCAP_WOL to NetBSD.

It will only waste battery capacity on a notebook if the operator
activated wake-on-LAN, correct?

Dave

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