On Sat 2009-07-18 20:56:10, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Hm yeah, but I doubt someone will do that, generally we'd get one wake > > up event. Can't we just report the first one and ignore the rest? > > Well, I'd say keeping it simple is best, here. What if you ignore the more > interesting wakeup events by chance (and it is really up to userspace to > know what it considers interesting...)? IMHO, just issue as many > notifications as needed, let userspace filter it if it wants. > > But if you guys are talking about something really generic, shouldn't it > also provide the important "why" along with the "who"? > > Even for the most common cases, the "why" is useful: userspace may well want > to run special routines when it wakes up because of WoL and WoW (instead of > a key press, lid open or mouse movement...). What special routines? Note that the "why" is unreliable by design. Network driver will ignore WoL during run-time, right? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
