On Wed, 7 May 2008, Jiri Kosina wrote:

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Alan Stern wrote:

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One big problem we always faced with autosuspend for keyboards is that 
most of them were not able to autoresume quickly enough to avoid losing 
keystrokes.  Isn't that still a problem?

Hi Alan,

it definitely is, but with autosuspend defaulting to off, and possibility 
of whitelisting known-good keyboards, we (or HAL, respectively) can still 
turn autosupend on those that are known to work properly, and still save 
some power on some systems.

Unfortunately, I vaguely remember that some keyboards exposed the 
behaviors only when connected to certain HCI controllers, so building the 
whitelist might not be completely trivial.

Can we find out what Windows and OS-X do and copy them?

Alan Stern