RE: [patch] ACPI: kbd-pw-on/WOL don't work anymore since 2.4.14

[Grover, Andrew]

> From: Patrick Mochel [mailto:[e-mail]]
> 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