On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Pardon me for asking what may be a dumb question. Why does ACPI (or > anything else) need to know the target system state in order to decide > how a device should be suspended or whether wakeup should be enabled? Because the things that distinguish different states are the particular resources that are available in that state. A device that needs resource X to be active (e.g. to wake that part of the system) can't stay active in states where X is unavailable. A device that won't issue wakeup events can probably enter lower power states. I think it'd be pure confusion to care about whether wakeup "should" be enabled in this state versus that one. Enable it when it's requested and possible, but otherwise there's nothing to be done. Runtime PM policies will mostly avoid device states where wakeup can't work (unless it's disabled for that device), but if the system enters a state where it can't, tough! One canonical example is portions of the clock tree that are available in one state but not another. My pet example being the USB clock, often 48 MHz, not being available in deeper sleep states ... e.g. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/22/241 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/22/242 It's routine for system power states to care about clocks like that. PXA 25x docs are probably where I first ran across that issue, but docs for pretty much any SOC will talk first about clocks when discussing power management. (Current flows when clocks tick ...) Another is power domains. ACPI talks about those (but not clocks!) as board level things ... e.g. turn off this power supply on the mainboard. Newer SOCs must manage these for on-chip devices too, since newer manufacturing processes (with smaller feature sizes) involve higher leakage current (flowing even when clocks don't tick). - Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
