Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [Regression] USB wakeup problem on Toshiba Portege R500 | Date | Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:03:48 +0100 |
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On Thursday 08 January 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Thursday 08 January 2009 17:36:12 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > We do support remote wakeup from PS2 keyboards. So you might argue we > > > should do the same for USB HID devices. > > > > Well, _I_ can live with a few 'echo disabled > /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup' > > lines in my init scripts, but I'm afraid we're going to get many problem > > reports related to this. This means people will likely lose time on trying to > > debug this problem and someone will have to handle the reports. Are you > > volunteering to do that? > > You are making a very persuasive argument for reverting it. > But what about laptops that only have a USB keyboard?
Well, up to and including 2.6.28 they needed to echo 'enable' to the USB controllers' /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup files, so if the patch is reverted, they won't be worse off than they were day before yestarday. :-)
Perhaps we can choose the default depending on whether or not any HID devices are attached to given controller?
Thanks, Rafael
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