Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 13:32:43 EST


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:28:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:25 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > How (and why) does the WoL (which may be *any* packet, not just a magic
> > one) turn the screen back on?
>
> Why would you care about the screen for a network event?

Because the application that needs to handle the network packet is
currently blocked trying to draw something to the screen.

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