Re: Request for feedback and/or participation on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PowerManagement

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matthew Garrett (mjg redhat com) said: 
> > > Enabling USB autosuspend looks like a good candidate for being a default 
> > > though. I've used it on quite a few Fedora 10 machines around here and 
> > > haven't experienced any problems so far, so it seems to have matured 
> > > enough by now from what i can see.
> > Scanners and printers are the worst case for this. I think we really 
> > need to implement some kind of decent testing framework and build some 
> > whitelists.
>
> If we're enabling it by default on hardware that is known OK, then
> I'm not sure why this should be a huge issue - the majority of machines
> don't run with a USB scanner/printer attached, I would imagine.

What makes you think this? These days, probably most home users will own 
at least one USB printer, many will also own usb scanners.

Ralf