Re: Problems with remote-wakeup settings

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Friday 05 March 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 5. März 2010 21:59:31 schrieben Sie:
> > > > I guess it's better if drivers don't set should_wakeup if unsure, but of course
> > > > that's impossible to enforce.
> > > 
> > > That's the real question.  Ideally, drivers won't touch should_wakeup.  
> > > How do we get there from here?
> > 
> > Enable it only for devices specifically designed for wakeup, that is
> > keyboards, power buttons and WoL, perhaps also mice and modems.
> > Are we far away from that?
> 
> I don't think we're very far from that.
> 
> Mice are known dangerous, especially the USB ones, though.

I agree, especially for desktop systems.  You don't want the system to 
wake up merely because you happened to jostle the mouse.  That happened 
to me just a few days ago (and it was a PS/2 mouse, not USB).

Alan Stern

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