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| author | Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2011-09-26 17:38:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> | 2011-10-16 23:28:51 +0200 |
| commit | 8f88893c05f2f677f18f2ce5591b4bed5d4a7535 (patch) | |
| tree | 4368e42a2c35ee018f7cd91b8fa6643f6ff2b852 /Documentation/power | |
| parent | 37cce26b32142f09a8967f6d238178af654b20de (diff) | |
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PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
This patch (as1485) documents a change to the kernel's default wakeup
policy. Devices that forward wakeup requests between buses should be
enabled for wakeup by default.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/devices.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/devices.txt b/Documentation/power/devices.txt index 3384d5996be2..29b7a9817f5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/devices.txt @@ -152,7 +152,9 @@ try to use its wakeup mechanism. device_set_wakeup_enable() affects this flag; for the most part drivers should not change its value. The initial value of should_wakeup is supposed to be false for the majority of devices; the major exceptions are power buttons, keyboards, and Ethernet adapters whose WoL -(wake-on-LAN) feature has been set up with ethtool. +(wake-on-LAN) feature has been set up with ethtool. It should also default +to true for devices that don't generate wakeup requests on their own but merely +forward wakeup requests from one bus to another (like PCI bridges). Whether or not a device is capable of issuing wakeup events is a hardware matter, and the kernel is responsible for keeping track of it. By contrast, |