Wakelocks

The "token" is a "struct wakeup_source". You can embed these where ever you like. Alternatively you can use a string name and "wakeup_source_register" will create on for you.

I don't think the uevent code would be changed.

I think for the sd card case there would be two wakeup sources - one for the MMC interface and one for the block device. So on card-detect the MMC interface activates its wakeup_source. It then inspects the card, figures out that it is a storage device, calls mmc_blk_probe, then releases its wakeup_source. mmc_blk_probe would activate its wakeup_source, do whatever it does, ultimately call add_disk (which will make the uevent visible to userspace) and then release the mmc_blk wakeup_source. So any driver in a wakeup chain needs a wakeup_source and needs to activate/deactivate as appropriate.

I don't know the network code very well so I'm guessing more than usual here, but I think there is an 'skbuf' that travels from device to socket queue. I imagine a single system-wide wakeup_source and a flag in the skbuf to say if it is active (a wakeup_source has a counter and so can be shared). Device sets it when creating an skbuf if wake-up is enabled and socket code clears it when it is added to a queue (or when the skbuf is discarded).

A network device might want a separate wakeup source if there is a gap between the interrupt happening and the packet being read from the network device.

But of course the devil is in the detail, and adding anything to fast-paths in the network code is a not an option so we would need to be very careful.

One step at a time :-)