On Thursday 23 July 2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Thu 2009-07-23 16:45:22, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > Note that the "why" is unreliable by design. Network driver will > > > > > > ignore WoL during run-time, right? > > > > > > > > > > "Why" is unrealible? I don't follow your reasoning. It should be as > > > > > reliable as "who"... > > > > > > > > See above. The wakeup events race with each other. > > > > > > We deliver them all. It is that simple. The rest is up to userspace. > > > > Ok, but then we should not be talking about wake up events, > > but... events. > > > > Like "lid opened", "wake packet came", ... . And deliver them even > > when they happen during run-time. That's okay with me. > > Well, we *already* deliver "lid opened" when the lid is opened, regardless > of it waking up the computer or not. But we are missing a way to deliver > other classes of wakeup events. > > I know of at least these (incomplete list): > > 1. network-initiated wakeup > a. wired > b. wireless > c. long-range wireless > > 2. platform health/condition alarms > a. battery alarm (two levels, warning and emergency) > b. thermal alarm (two levels, warning and emergency) > (we need these as generic alarms, not just reason-for-wakeup) > > 3. device (or device tree) hotplug/hotunplug > a. hotunplug request or notification > (we deliver the request/notification, but we don't know we should > go back to sleep, so all we are missing is the reason-for-wakeup > event) > > 4. management > a. wake-up/power on clock > b. remote management command (IMPI, etc) > c. intrusion alarm > d. theft alarm > > None of those have a standard interface to notify userspace of the reason of > the wake up AFAIK. Many of these want a generic event interface to be > delivered not just as reason-for-wakeup, but also as runtime events. > > And I guess we should also tell userspace what state we are waking up from > (S5 clean state, S5/S4 hibernation, S3), sometimes it matters. Agreed, and same for the above. So, what in your opinion would be the best way to expose this information? Rafael -- 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
