Re: [PATCH 09/10] Input: Hold wake lock while event queue is not empty.

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On Friday 13 February 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:52:22PM -0800, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> 
> > That was not the bug. Another component opened one of the input
> > devices, but did not read events from it.
> 
> It's not the job of the kernel to guard against userspace doing foolish 
> things.

Amen.

> Either you want to wait for input events to be consumed before 
> suspend or you don't - arbitrary timeouts provide no guarantees about 
> the correctness of your platform's behaviour. The default permissions on 
> the event devices mean that the only components that could interfere 
> with this are ones under your control, so fixing them seems like the 
> sensible approach.

This is exactly my point, but I couldn't find words to say it so clearly.

Thanks,
Rafael
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