On Saturday 06 of March 2010 07:16:20 Alan Stern wrote: > 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). I remember, my old desktop had BIOS option to wake up on mouse click (and it had PS/2 mouse either) ignoring mouse move. I actually found it useful.
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