Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist

Bastien Nocera
2015-04-30T16:25:25Z

On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 10:04 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> 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?

This is pretty much what I had in mind:
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/lucid-sleep

I guess I didn't make myself understood.