[linux-pm] Resume/wakeup during sleep transition

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Hi!

> Furthermore, it could be that a device can't issue wakeup requests unless
> it has IRQs enabled.  So what happens, for instance, if Wake-on-LAN is
> turned on and an Ethernet interface has been suspended in preparation for
> STR, but before the STR completes (and while interrupts are still enabled)
> a packet arrives?  It doesn't make sense for the driver to resume the
> Ethernet interface when the whole system is about to go to sleep.  On the
> other hand, since the request has already been delivered, if the driver
> ignores it then it will be lost forever.

Ignored WOL does not seem catastrophic to me. If WOL was received just
_before_ suspend was started, it would be ignored too. (Running system
will just ignore wake requests, like?) So ignoring wake requests why
we are going to sleep seems okay.
								Pavel
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