Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ethtool: add tunable api to disable various firmware offloads

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:32:48 -0700

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:33:25 -0700 Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> In order to save power (battery), most network hardware
> designed for low power environments (ie. battery powered
> devices) supports varying types of hardware/firmware offload
> (filtering and/or generating replies) of incoming packets.
> 
> The goal being to prevent device wakeups caused by ingress 'spam'.
> 
> This is particularly true for wifi (especially phones/tablets),
> but isn't actually wifi specific.  It can also be implemented
> in wired nics (TV) or usb ethernet dongles.
> 
> For examples TVs require this to keep power consumption
> under (the EU mandated) 2 Watts while idle (display off),
> while still being discoverable on the network.

Sounds sane, adding Florian, he mentioned MDNS at last netconf.
Tho, wasn't there supposed to be a more granular API in Android
to control such protocol offloads?

You gotta find an upstream driver which implements this for us to merge.
If Florian doesn't have any quick uses -- I think Intel ethernet drivers
have private flags for enabling/disabling an LLDP agent. That could be
another way..
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