RELENG_8 -- shutdown -p no longer powers off boxes

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Fri Apr 23 16:00:44 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:49:20AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> Sorry guys, somehow I've not noticed this thread for a while. It was just
> pointed out to
> me that I undid a change in the latest driver code, because due to one
> user's problems
> after I put in WOL support, I had taken out the broadcast option and left in
> ONLY MAGIC,
> but now as you've seen I inadvertently reintroduced it in the newest code.
> 
> I've agreed to go back to MAGIC only in the current code, but am in the
> middle of some
> new development and havent yet got to it but will shortly.

And I sent the results of my tests 5 minutes after your mail, doh!  :-)

I guess a quick-fix for the driver would be to force WOL_MCAST off
(internally) and remove it from the device capabilities list.  I can
probably submit a tested patch that would do exactly that; lemme know.

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