Re: BUG in include/linux/pm.h: remote wakeup settings

David Brownell
2008-03-10T16:53:43Z

On Monday 10 March 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> Currently include/linux/pm.h doesn't define the should_wakeup field in
> dev_pm_info, or the related accessor macros, unless CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is
> set.

Right, and I certainly recall pointing that out sometime last year...
so it's not exactly a new discovery.

> This is wrong. Even though the system can't go to sleep, individual
> devices may be placed in low-power states (runtime PM). Thus the
> various wakeup settings should be available whenever CONFIG_PM is on.
>
> I don't want to submit a patch to fix the problem right now, because it
> would clash with ongoing changes that Rafael is making. But the bug
> needs to be fixed in time for 2.6.26.
>
> Alan Stern
>