Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:53:33 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Generic events for wake up from S1-S4 |
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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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