Re: [PATCH v2 resend] ACPI: generate wakeup events on fixed power button

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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday, May 10, 2012, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> When the system is woken up by the ACPI fixed power button, currently there
>> is no way of userspace becoming aware that the power button was pressed.
>>
>> OLPC would like to know this, so that we can respond appropriately.
>> For example, if the system was woken up by a network packet, we know
>> we can go back to sleep very quickly. But if the user explicitly woke the
>> system with the power button, we're going to want to stay awake for a
>> while.
>>
>> The wakeup count mechanism seems like a good fit for communicating this.
>> Mark the fixed power button as wakeup-enabled, and increment its wakeup
>> counter when the system is woken with the power button. (The wakeup counter
>> is also incremented when the power button is pressed during system
>> operation; this is already handled by an existing acpi-button codepath).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> Len, this looks like v3.5 material to me, any chance to pick it up?

Bump. Any news here? Would love to see it in 3.5.

Thanks
Daniel
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