linux-kernel - Re: Generic events for wake up from S1-S4

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:10:58 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Chen <Stephen.Chen@...eros.com>
Subject: Re: Generic events for wake up from S1-S4

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> > What about simply reporting "wake event happened on this device" and
> >> > doing that for all the devices?
> >>
> >> That's fine too. Just think it would be nice to be more specific if possible.
> >
> > A generic way for a device (of any sort, not just network devices!) to
> > report that they just issued a system wakeup message, as well as the reason
> > it did that seems like a good way to do it to me.
> 
> This should be easy to do via udev events.
> 
> How about an generic platform registered, and udev events issues for
> wake-up-triggers, and also for wake-up-events, and leave all the
> sorting out to userspace? All we'd need in-kernel would be the trigger
> registration and event trigger notifications.

I am fine with it.  Please CC me if you write some code for that ;-)

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  Henrique Holschuh
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