WOL filters specifications.

[Alberto Panizzo]

On mer, 2010-09-01 at 11:09 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Adding S-o-b's...
> 
> This patch is nearly 2 years old -- is there a real problem here?

Well, about the nowadays driver, that piece of code is never used,
so it is hard that it was successfully tested..
I'm asking if there was a rationale behind that. (If anyone knows)
Because We are going to try to use that functionality but that
wide differences between specs and code makes me wonder that
the specs I have maybe are not right.

There had been also a try to use that functionality in the thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/22563/focus=23312

But porting this patch to the nowadays driver results (in my case
88W8686 based wifi chip connected via sdio) in deafness of the wifi
chip about the iwpriv calls that sets rules: iwpriv calls that get the 
rules results always in 0 rules set.


> 
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 04:52:01PM +0200, Alberto Panizzo wrote:
> > The patch 582c1b538fb47a2d6a41dbdadb031086c49446c1 introduced
> > (other than the ability to wake on specific criteria) structures
> > that are supposed to be used to specify fine grained wol roules.
> > Those rules tells the wifi chip to filter the received Ethernet packets
> > to be used for the wake event.
> > 
> > The question is, why those structures are so different from the
> > v5.1 firmware specifications?(pag 131: MrvlIETypes_HostSleepFilterType1
> > linked from pag 85: 5.13.3.3 CMD_802_11_HOST_SLEEP_CFG)
> > 
> > Is the 5.1 fw specs too old? or are these structures not valid?
> > Looking at the Marvell driver the Ethernet rules shall be specified
> > as written in the 5.1 firmware specs.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for all suggestions.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alberto!
> > 
> >         Be Persistent!
> >                 - Greg Kroah-Hartman (FOSDEM 2010)
> > 
> >