[PATCH 7/7] gianfar: add support for wake-on-packet

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 9 00:42:09 EST 2011


On Nov 8, 2011, at 5:20 AM, Li Yang-R58472 wrote:

> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+leoli=freescale.com at lists.ozlabs.org
>> [mailto:linuxppc-dev-bounces+leoli=freescale.com at lists.ozlabs.org] On
>> Behalf Of Scott Wood
>> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 5:12 AM
>> To: Zhao Chenhui-B35336
>> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; Fleming Andy-
>> AFLEMING
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] gianfar: add support for wake-on-packet
>> 
>> On 11/04/2011 07:40 AM, Zhao Chenhui wrote:
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl-tsec-phy.txt
>> b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl-tsec-phy.txt
>>> index 2c6be03..543e36c 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl-tsec-phy.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/fsl-tsec-phy.txt
>>> @@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ Properties:
>>>     hardware.
>>>   - fsl,magic-packet : If present, indicates that the hardware supports
>>>     waking up via magic packet.
>>> +  - fsl,wake-on-filer : If present, indicates that the hardware
>> supports
>>> +    waking up via arp request to local ip address or unicast packet to
>>> +    local mac address.
>> 
>> Is there any way to determine this at runtime via the device's registers?
>> 
>> I think TSEC_ID2[TSEC_CFG] can be used.  The manual describes it
>> awkwardly, but it looks like 0x20 is the bit for the filer.
> 
> That bit only defines the filer feature but not wakeup on it.  Another solution is to get the capability from the fsl_pmc driver, but will make the driver a lot more complex.

I don't believe there is a way to know this from the controller itself.  We have to use device tree for it.

- k


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