On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 07:13 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 4/29/2012 3:41 AM, Magnus Fromreide wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 07:34 +0200, Németh Márton wrote: > >> Hi Magnus, > >> > >> Magnus Fromreide wrote: > >>> On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 12:38 +0200, Németh Márton wrote: > >>>> Németh Márton wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> in powertop "Tunables" I found the following entry for my Genius > >>>>> NetScroll 110 > >>>>> USB optical mouse ( > >>>>> http://www.geniusnet.com/wSite/ct?xItem=16499&ctNode=104&mp=1 ): > >>>>> > >>>>>>> Bad Autosuspend for USB device Optical Mouse [Genius] > >>>>> If I press Enter it will change to: > >>>>> > >>>>>>> Good Autosuspend for USB device Optical Mouse [Genius] > >>> > >>> What version of powertop are you using? > >>> > >>> This sounds like a rather old version - more recent releases doesn't, as > >>> far as I know, try to suspend mice exactly due to them becoming rather > >>> useless when suspended. > >> > >> This is 2a86bf81403f54acd213c4f326ab214b372fe061 (2012-04-27 22:37:40) > >> from git://github.com/fenrus75/powertop.git so I guess this is the > >> recent powertop version. > > > > Yes, that made me look more closely and apparently the patch from > > powertop 1.x did get lost during the transition to powertop 2 so this > > seems like a regression. > > > > Simply forward porting the check from 1.x also doesn't seem to work so > > this needs a new fix. > > I'm not so sure. > > In the 1.x version, we had one key for all devices... so there it was > important to exclude HID devices.
Good point. > In the 2.x version, we have a key per device... and the user (who is > root) now has full control.... > Telling root to not do what he wants to do is not good policy > (every time some app does that to me I really really hate it) This is also reasonable, but then the question is if the labels 'Good' and 'Bad' should be changed to something less loaded like 'Enabled' and 'Disabled', or maybe 'On', 'Off' and 'Auto', since 'Bad' in particular do give off a you-are-killing-baby-seals-vibe. /MF _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] https://bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
