On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Benson Leung wrote: > > This raises an interesting question. Suppose the system gets suspended > > while the lid is closed. At that point, shouldn't wakeup devices be > > enabled, even if they were already inhibited? > > It's possible that this could be a policy decision, ie, whether > power/wakeup is set to enabled for those devices or not. > However, I'd say that there's only one policy that makes sense in that > case : wakeups should be disabled while suspended. > > If we inhibited the device during runtime to prevent stray input > events from being generated, it wouldn't make sense to allow the > device to potentially generate an accidental wakeup while suspended.
That doesn't really make sense. If you're afraid of a device generating spurious wakeup events when the lid is closed, you should never enable it for wakeup. After all, one of the first things that people often do after suspending their laptop is close the lid. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
