device_init_wakeup(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

device_init_wakeup — Device wakeup initialization ✨

okay so bestie, this is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the function that handles Device wakeup initialization. no cap 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int device_init_wakeup (struct device *dev , bool enable );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — Device to handle. 🫶 main character device energy, ngl.
• enable — Whether or not to enable dev as a wakeup device. 👑 vibe check for wakeup mode.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

By default, most devices should leave wakeup disabled. periodt. The exceptions are devices that everyone expects to be wakeup sources: keyboards, power buttons, possibly network interfaces, etc. ⌨️🔘🌐 the way that keyboards and power buttons are main character energy 😭

Also, devices that don't generate their own wakeup requests but merely forward requests from one bus to another (like PCI bridges) should have wakeup enabled by default. iykyk 🔥

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./include/linux/pm_wakeup.h 🧚 the lore is right here
• struct wakeup_source(9) 🌈
• devm_device_init_wakeup(9) 💜

mwah 💋 — this page is from ./include/linux, dated October 2026. slay, bestie ✨