linux-kernel - Re: btusb autosuspend (was Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc6)

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Message-ID: <20110224004013.GA1874@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:40:13 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@...fusion.mobi>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: btusb autosuspend (was Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc6)

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:25:23PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. Is there any reason we shouldn't revert commit
> 556ea928f78a390fe16ae584e6433dff304d3014 given the regression?
> 
> It apparently had problems before too, and caused autosuspend to be
> disabled entirely, judging at least by
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528744
> 
> but there's obviously the comment about "those should be fixed now".
> Apparently there are more issues.
> 
> I have no idea whether this is a USB-level issue, or a driver-level
> one. There are no comments about exactly what fixed the input device
> issues. So I'm adding both BT and USB people to the discussion.

I think we should revert it as it looks like there is hardware out there
that can not handle this always being enabled :(

Unless Matthew has a fix for this already?

thanks,

greg k-h
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