RE: [PATCH] HID: usbhid: enable remote wakeup for mice

Limonciello, Mario
2023-02-28T19:08:24Z

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 13:05
> To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario.Limonciello@amd.com>
> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>; Michael Wu
> <michael@allwinnertech.com>; jikos@kernel.org;
> benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com; linux-usb@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> input@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Gong, Richard
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: usbhid: enable remote wakeup for mice
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:50:18PM +0000, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
> > I still keep getting inquiries about this where teams that work on the same
> > hardware for Windows and Linux complain about this difference during
> > their testing.
> >
> > I keep educating them to change it in sysfs (or to use a udev rule), but
> > you have to question if you keep getting something asked about policy
> > over and over if it's actually the right policy.
>
> Why not complain to the Windows team to get them to change their policy
> back as they are the ones that changed it over time and are not
> backwards-compatible with older systems?
>

Heh.

I don't think that's actually true though - Modern Standby is relatively new.
Picking new policies tied to that shouldn't break backwards compatibility.