device model wakeup

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 17:15 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 08:44 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > > I'm all for supporting this; if I understand correctly this is
> > > replacing /proc/acpi/wakeup functionality, yes?
> > 
> > Yes, it was talked about, I don't know if it's going to happen. I for
> > one would use it in the power/iBook code.
> 
> I should mention that it does, of course, work with most USB devices
> today. So even if /proc/acpi/wakeup isn't replaced, it's still useful,
> and the hal acpi-binding could actually provide pseudo-devices with that
> API so it's seamless once it is replaced in the kernel (albeit different
> devices)

Yeah, we could do this - /proc/acpi/wakeup is difficult to parse though;
I don't know a good way to link the entries to the actual device objects
in the tree. When is the new interface supposed to land in Linux? 

      David