External devices

[Ran Shalit]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 8:44 PM, AYAN KUMAR HALDER <ayankumarh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now, the thing I don't yet understand is what the wakeup source means
>> in this configuration. Wakeup only for a specific device driver ?
> Wakeup source has its relevance mostly for system suspend/resume where in
> a device (eg keyboard) can pull the system out of suspend mode.
>
> In Runtime-pm, the device is the wake-up source for itself unless there exist
> a parent-child relationship ie under some conditions the child can
> wakeup the parent.
> So there is no such relevance for wakeup device in runtime-pm

Thanks very very much. You've resolved my misunderstanding :)