> the fact that usb currently has a broken resume method doesn't mean that > it shouldn't in principle be built into the kernel. > In fact, I suspect that by having a workaround available fewer people > report that bug to the USB people resulting in it never getting fixed... That's nice, in principle, but in the intervening period a bunch of us have non working laptops, or, as is more often the case, don't run the kernels that have usb built in and just avoid the issue. -sv