Re: Problems with remote-wakeup settings

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

On Friday 05 March 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote:

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Am Freitag, 5. März 2010 21:59:31 schrieben Sie:

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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

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