Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist

John Stultz
2014-10-21T17:04:10Z

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> GNOME has had discussions with kernel developers in the past, and,
> fortunately, in some cases we were able to make headway.
>
> There are however a number of items that we still don't have solutions
> for, items that kernel developers might not realise we'd like to rely
> on, or don't know that we'd make use of if merged.
>
> I've posted this list at:
> https://wiki.gnome.org/BastienNocera/KernelWishlist
>
> Let me know on-list or off-list if you have any comments about those, so
> I can update the list.

As for: 'Export of "wake reason" when the system wakes up (rtc alarm,
lid open, etc.) and wakealarm (/sys/class/rtc/foo/wakealarm)
documentation'

Can you expand more on the rational for the need here? Is this for UI
for power debugging, or something else?

thanks
-john