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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
