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From: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
To: "'Patrick Mochel'" <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: "'Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe'" <Mario.Holbe@RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>,
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Subject: RE: [patch] ACPI: kbd-pw-on/WOL don't work anymore since 2.4.14
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:51:57 -0800
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> From: Patrick Mochel [mailto:mochel@osdl.org]
> It seems like this would ideally be specified in the config 
> file for the 
> power management agent. So, before the transition to sleep began, the 
> agent would enable those devices to wake the system (probably 
> by writing a 
> value to a driverfs file). 

Agree.

> The only thing is that you probably want all devices of a 
> particular class 
> to wake a system - like all keyboards or all net devices. I 
> don't know 
> what the config file format for ospmd looks like, but it 
> might articulated 
> like:
> 
> /* devices to wake the system when we go to sleep */
> wake {
> 	keyboard
> 	network
> 	mouse
> }
> Right?

Sounds OK to me. Once the wake capability and class of a device are both
visible through driverfs, implementing functionality like this in userspace
is easy.

Regards -- Andy
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