On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:39:52 +0900
Naohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com> wrote:

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> Hi All
> 
> I resend my patch.
> Sorry, my previous mail lacked an explanation.
> 
> 
> The e1000 driver doesn't let the power down when running ifdown command.
> So, I set to the D3hot state of a PCI device at the end of e1000_close().
> 
> With this modification, e1000 driver reduces power by ifdown.
> It's about 6 watts when I measured a total power of one server machine
> in my environment.
> 
> I tested this patch. The result is good enough to me.
> 
> Could you please check my patch ?
> If I should have other considerations, please tell me.
> 


Does this work with Wake On Lan? 
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