linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] PM: Make it possible to avoid wakeup events from being lost

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Date:	Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:21:42 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	mark gross <640e9920@...il.com>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Arve@...p1.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] PM: Make it possible to avoid wakeup events from being lost

On Saturday, June 26, 2010, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, David Brownell wrote:
... 
> > > +        The
> > > /sys/power/wakeup_count file allows user space to avoid
> > > +        losing wakeup events
> > > when transitioning the system into a sleep
> > > +        state.  Reading
> 
> This could have been phrased better:  The /sys/power/wakeup_count file
> allows user space to put the system into a sleep state conditionally
> subject to the arrival of concurrent wakeup events, which will either
> block the sleep transition or cause it to fail.

I'll chage this in the final version.  Thanks!

Rafael
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