Re: [Regression] USB wakeup problem on Toshiba Portege R500

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 11:48:49 EST


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?

> Also, it would have been nice to notify people of such a change of behavior in
> advance.

Yes, sorry.

Regards
Oliver


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