Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 04/27] Input: i8042 - enable keyboard wakeups by default when s2idle is used

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:58:21AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 06:19:01AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > From: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 684bec1092b6991ff2a7751e8a763898576eb5c2 ]
> >
> > Previously, on typical consumer laptops, pressing a key on the keyboard
> > when the system is in suspend would cause it to wake up (default or
> > unconditional behaviour). This happens because the EC generates a SCI
> > interrupt in this scenario.
> >
> > That is no longer true on modern laptops based on Intel WhiskeyLake,
> > including Acer Swift SF314-55G, Asus UX333FA, Asus UX433FN and Asus
> > UX533FD. We confirmed with Asus EC engineers that the "Modern Standby"
> > design has been modified so that the EC no longer generates a SCI
> > in this case; the keyboard controller itself should be used for wakeup.
> >
> > In order to retain the standard behaviour of being able to use the
> > keyboard to wake up the system, enable serio wakeups by default on
> > platforms that are using s2idle.
>
> I disagree that this should be included in stable as it does not fix a
> regression on the aforementioned platforms and has a potential to alter
> the behavior. The fact that the system does not wake up on keyboard is
> not a showstopper, wakeup usually happens on lid open anyway.
>
> It is hitting 4.19 LTS train and that should be enough. Please do not
> pick up for earlier stables.

Dropped, thanks!