Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:50:48 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Norman Diamond <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test2: lost mouse  synchronization after apm-suspend
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On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 07:13:17PM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote:
> "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com> wrote to someone else:
> 
> > Unload all usb drivers before suspending please.
> 
> I hope this isn't a general rule?  I can't keep up with the list, but I saw
> this message, and it looks like a disaster.

Right now, yes that is the response if anyone has any problems with
this, sorry.

> There are a lot of small-size desktop machines that depend on USB keyboards
> because they don't have PS/2 ports.  In some cases the keyboard includes a
> PS/2 hub for a PS/2 mouse, but in some cases the keyboard doesn't even have
> that so the mouse is also USB.  In all of these cases the connection to the
> CPU goes through a USB port.
> 
> How should the user restore their keyboard after resuming from suspend?  A
> modprobe or insmod command?  In the vast majority of these cases the input
> of a command would depend on having the USB keyboard already working.

Have the resume script re-load the drivers.  A lot of people are already
doing this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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