linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v8 28/28] net: WireGuard secure network tunnel

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Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:09:14 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v8 28/28] net: WireGuard secure network tunnel

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 01:47:21AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> when it goes to sleep (screen blanking, wakelocks, etc). The Android
> model of Linux revolves around this, and hence the suspend semantics
> for WireGuard respect this model and adjust accordingly, using the
> appropriate CONFIG_ANDROID to determine which model we're operating
> under. This is not a bandaid, and it doesn't have to do with forks of
> the Linux kernel.

If that's what you are trying to conditionalize, why don't use
CONFIG_PM_AUTOSLEEP?  That way if there are other systems that want to
use the Android wakelocks style of suspend management, your code will
DTRT, as opposed to depending on CONFIG_ANDROID.

						- Ted