On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:34:18AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > Of course, if the device is idle then it's natural to ask why it isn't > already in low-power mode. Maybe it's waiting for an autosuspend > timer to expire; anything else doesn't make much sense. This isn't *really* about saving power in the individual device; it's more about stopping the device generating events that disrupt the rest of the system. Suspending the device can be one way of doing that and is useful if it can be done but is not really the immediate goal here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
