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Cryptic names

Why the hell do wakeup devices for ACPI need that cryptic names? I'd like to enable wakeup on keyboard, however I have no idea whether my notebook supports is or not. And the names don't help much:

$ cat /proc/acpi/wakeup
Device  Sleep state     Status
USB1       3            disabled
USB2       3            disabled
USB4       3            disabled
 LAN       4            disabled
MPC0       3            disabled
MPC1       3            disabled
VIY0       3            disabled
AMDM       3            disabled
 LID       4            * enabled
PWRB       4            * enabled