Re: [linux-pm] [RESEND patch 2.6.25] ACPI uses device_may_wakeup() policy inputs

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Hi!

> > > Indeed, it's easy to imagine a situation where somebody suspends their 
> > > laptop and then unplugs a USB mouse, thereby causing a wakeup event.
> > 
> > It's also easy to imagine getting used to unplugging
> > such devices *first* ... :)
> 
> Maybe.  But people aren't likely to unplug the mouse first if
> suspending the laptop is done by clicking on a "Suspend" button.  :-)
> 
> Or consider the case of a flash drive with a mounted filesystem.  You 
> can't safely unplug it before suspending, but you can safely unplug it 
> after suspending (provided you remember to plug it back in before 
> resuming).
> 
> Besides, people will complain that the [insert your choice] operating 
> system doesn't make them remember to unplug USB devices before 
> suspending, so why should Linux?

Besides, its a regression.

So we really should just default to the current behaviour on ACPI
systems: lid and power button wake up the system, other devices don't.
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