RFC: enable suspend to idle

[Thomas.Blume@xxxxxxxx (Thomas Blume)]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, Lennart Poettering wrote:

>> The kernel must not set policy on what is a source of wake ups. Setting
>> this up so that we do not get a regression in functionality compared
>> to old style S3 (whose policy is in firmware) falls to user space,
>> more specifically udev.
>
> And where would udev have that information from? I mean, if it turns
> this on for all devices, then why can't the kernel do that on its own?


We don't want all devices for which the kernel is supporting wake on idle, to
act as wakeup device.
Ideally this will be a config option with reasonable defaults.
The udev rule should consider this.

Thomas Blume

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