On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:27:21PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Mark Brown wrote: > > 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. > Runtime PM is _not_ a reliable way of preventing a device from > generating events. It is meant for saving energy, nothing else. Right, yes. > If that's what this is about, then the answer is simple: Don't use > runtime PM to try to suppress events. I tend to agree that runtime PM usage ought to fall out of the disabling of the input device rather than the other way around. -- 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
