Re: [PATCH][RFC] usbhid: enable autosuspend for internal devices
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Date: 2015-06-29 09:49:22
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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Date: 2015-06-29 09:49:22
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On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 08:29 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
Last time we were testing this, autosuspend for USB HID devices was quite a disaster. Do you have any idea whether udev developers tested the "autosuspend on by default for USB HID devices" on reasonable set of devices? The culrpits that I remember from top of my head (it's been long time ago): - the LEDs for suspended device go off. This is very confusing at least on keyboards, and brings really bad user experience
That is a bug. hidinput_count_leds() is supposed to prevent that. What did you test?
- many keyboards were losing first keystroke when waking up from suspend. We've been debugging this with Alan, and never root-caused it to a problem in our code, it seems to be the property of the HW
- mice don't wake up from movement alone. And again I would state that we don't get enough information from user space. Hardware seems to be designed for sleeping while a screen saver is on. In kernel space we just get a binary input desired or not desired from open/close. That is insufficient. Regards Oliver