Re: Generic events for wake up from S1-S4

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Sat 2009-07-18 20:56:10, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Hm yeah, but I doubt someone will do that, generally we'd get one wake
> > up event. Can't we just report the first one and ignore the rest?
> 
> Well, I'd say keeping it simple is best, here.  What if you ignore the more
> interesting wakeup events by chance (and it is really up to userspace to
> know what it considers interesting...)?  IMHO, just issue as many
> notifications as needed, let userspace filter it if it wants.
> 
> But if you guys are talking about something really generic, shouldn't it
> also provide the important "why" along with the "who"?
> 
> Even for the most common cases, the "why" is useful: userspace may well want
> to run special routines when it wakes up because of WoL and WoW (instead of
> a key press, lid open or mouse movement...).

What special routines?

Note that the "why" is unreliable by design. Network driver will
ignore WoL during run-time, right?
									Pavel
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