Re: Generic events for wake up from S1-S4

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2009-07-14 15:11:45, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm working on Wake-on-Wireless support for wireless right now [1].
> Upon wake up I wanted to inform the kernel of the event which caused
> the wake up but am not clear if there is a generic API for this. Mind
> you, for WoW we'll need at least some AC power to the card so we'll
> need to at least be in S3-Hot so we'll only need events for that for
> now.
> 
> Do we have some generic infrastructure to gather reasons for wake up
> from S1-S4 and pass this to userspace yet?

I do not think generic api exists...

How does it work? I thought that wifi stack is in software -> you need
main cpu to run for wifi to work?

...and what are the applications? I understand that WoL is useful for
remote administration of connected desktops.
								Pavel

> [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/WoW


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