Am Montag, 16. Oktober 2006 15:20 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov:
> On 10/16/06, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 16. Oktober 2006 05:54 schrieben Sie:
> > > > Both there's agreement in principle that PID devices should not be 
> > > > subject
> > > > to autosuspend based on inactivity?
> > >
> > > Hmm, why?
> >
> > It was my understanding that a PID effect is started with a command
> > describing the effect and its duration. Thus hid core cannot tell whether
> > a pid device is performing an effect.
> >
> 
> Hmm, you could add hooks into input_ff_upload() and input_ff_erase()
> and maybe in input_ff_events() to handle autocenter and gain cases...
> And then say that device that does not have any effects uploaded to it
> can be autosuspended... And you use input_dev->ff to check whjether
> device supports force-feedback or not. I am CCing Anssi Hannula as he
> recently overhauled entire FF support.

I know little about PID. For now I'll do pure HID. This will take till
wednesday or so. There are many races.

> > > > For what it's worth it sort of works now, however testing with an
> > > > MS Intellimouse Explorer I found that I really needed to use a button
> > > > to wake it up.
> > >
> > > I am afraid that this is a showstopper... While it is accepted that button
> > > press is needed to wake up from system suspend I doubt uses will like the
> > > need to press button to wake up their mice ;(;(
> >
> > For this particular marque of mouse it is. For the general case not
> > necessarily so.
> 
> Do you have mice that do not require button push to wake up?

I've tried with two mice. One needs the button, the other doesn't.
This is hardly a statistically significant number.

        Regards
                Oliver

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