Am Wednesday 18 February 2009 23:35:26 schrieb Arve Hjønnevåg: > >> Allowing user space to suspend input devices while they are still open > >> is useful. The user-space code that reads from the input devices does > >> not need to know if the device is suspended or not, and the kernel > >> cannot auto suspend input devices based on inactivity. > > > > Hmm. Why can't it? > > Because they stop working. It is OK for us to turn off the touchscreen > when the screen is off, but when the screen is on the user will touch > items on the screen and expect them to respond. (We could also turn > off the touchscreen when the keyguard is on, but we don't currently do > this.) This depends on the capabilities of the input device in question. Some USB keyboards can be autosuspended under these conditions because they can do remote wakeup. Regards Oliver _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
