On Monday 17 September 2012 22:22:50 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > I believe that's the beauty of options like CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. If > you leave the machine running crunching numbers (of whatever), with > USB_SUSPEND the devices not used (say, the backup disk you transfer > to the results of your crunching every weekend) can be suspended, > saving a little bit of power.
No, I don't need that, having no superfluous devices connected. My weekly backup is of the entire system to an external USB disk. Not from the running system; I reboot to a mini system (which I call a rescue system) each Sunday morning and backup the entire system to USB disk. So far I haven't needed to recover more than a small section of the backup. > You don't leave the monitor turned on and disable the power off > features of it, right? I resent the kernel's insistence on deciding when my monitor should be switched off. I'm perfectly capable of doing that myself, thank you very much. -- Rgds Peter
