Re: Tool to enable USB power management

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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Sarah Sharp wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:04:07AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 25 Februar 2009 20:09:55 schrieb Sarah Sharp:
> > > I'm aware that Oliver found some USB mice that would wakeup only when a
> > > button was clicked but not when they were moved.  I'm not sure whether
> > 
> > Every mouse I tested behaved this way. 4 out of 4.
> 
> Interesting.  Maybe this is the way mice are supposed to work (TM)?
> Perhaps they can't meet the power requirement for selective suspend if
> they leave on their optic sensors.

That seems very likely.  Or rather, the LEDs (not the sensors) probably
require too much power.

>  Did you test any wheel mice?

I may have one.  I'll try to test it in the next day or two.

> > But I cannot confirm Alan's bad experience with keyboards. Every
> > keyboard worked flawlessly. 3 out of 3.
> 
> That's great!  Care to send me the VID:PIDs?
> 
> Maybe something changed between the time Alan tested keyboard
> auto-suspend?  I know you went through several revisions of the HID
> auto-suspend support patch.

You don't need autosuspend to test remote wakeup.  I ran my tests more 
than a year before Oliver's HID autosuspend work was finished.  Jiri 
Kosina tested some keyboards as well, with similar results.

Alan Stern

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