linux-kernel - Re: [linux-usb-devel] error to be returned while suspended

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Message-Id: <200610081039.59777.oliver@neukum.org>
Date:	Sun, 8 Oct 2006 10:39:58 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	USB development list <linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] error to be returned while suspended

Am Sonntag, 8. Oktober 2006 09:20 schrieb David Brownell:
> > If a device is always opened, as mice are, it will not be suspended.
> > Yet they can be without any data to deliver forever.
> 
> In 2.6.19-rc1 read Documentation/power/devices.txt about runtime
> suspend states.  Then think about how why mouse in a runtime suspend
> state, with remote wakeup enabled, looks externally ** EXACTLY ** like
> a mouse that's fully active ....

I've done so. And I've read the HID spec. It just says that a mouse
may support remote wakeup, not what should wake it up. A device
that wakes only if a button is clicked is within spec.

	Regards
		Oliver
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