[systemd-devel] Implementing remote wake-up for Bluetooth

[Bastien Nocera]

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On 09/21/2014 02:25 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Ideas on how this should be implemented?
> 
> Just make sure this gets implemented in the right place and ensure this 
> can be disabled and is disabled by default as well as have proper 
> permission since you dont want to grant the ability to friends who have 
> paired their mobile devices or tablets with their friends computer the 
> ability to wake up/suspend that friends device.

This is ridiculous. If the device is paired they can already access your contact
list, your media player, get shared files, etc. When it's paired, it's yours.

> And working on Apple device(s) is one thing, working on all devices is 
> another and supporting this is a bit of an hot potato since many laptop 
> manufactures will not allow a Bluetooth device to wake the computer from 
> sleep mode because of the power consumption requirements to keep the 
> Bluetooth radio activated.

Citation needed.

> So with this feature for people that are to lazy to press the power 
> button to wake up their computer

Yeah, right...