On Monday 16 November 2009, Alan Stern wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > > > > Apparently, there are devices that can wake up the system from sleep > > states and yet are incapable of generating wake-up events at run > > time. Thus, introduce a flag indicating if given device is capable > > of generating run-time wake-up events. > > This raises the question: Who is responsible for setting the new > flag? The code that registers the device? Yes, in general. The platform. Actually, I needed it for PCI, but I thought it would be better to put it at the core level. > What if the kernel can't tell whether or not the device can generate > runtime wake-up events? Do you have any specific examples in mind? > What if the user wants to override the kernel's setting? Should there > be a sysfs attribute controlling the flag? I have no plans for adding anything like that. Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
