Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI / sleep: EC-based wakeup from suspend-to-idle on recent Dell systems

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Jun 05 2017 - 16:51:24 EST


On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, <Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> + /*
>> + * Enable the EC to wake up the system from suspend-to-idle to allow
>> + * power button events to it wake up.
>> + */
>> + {
>> + .callback = init_ec_gpe_wakeup,
>> + .ident = "Dell XPS 13 9360",
>> + .matches = {
>> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
>> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "XPS 13 9360"),
>> + },
>> + },
>> + {
>> + .callback = init_ec_gpe_wakeup,
>> + .ident = "Dell XPS 13 9365",
>> + .matches = {
>> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
>> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "XPS 13 9365"),
>> + },
>> + },
>> {},
>> };
>>
>
> Although the XPS 9360 and XPS 9365 are currently the only Dell products on
> the market that do the wakeup this way, this is part of Dell's BIOS and EC
> codebase. As other Dell products start to ship Windows 10 with Modern Standby
> and (eventually) Linux with Suspend-to-Idle I'd expect this list to be growing.

Well, if init_ec_gpe_wakeup() was enabled on all Dell systems at this
point, it would affect all previous generations of them too and that
might not be desirable.

Thanks,
Rafael