Comment 228 for bug 88746

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote :

Elias, you are over simplifying this issue. If we disable autosuspend, then suspend/resume wont work for a good portion of people. After long ago weighing the options, we had to decide on the lesser of two evils: suspend/resume working for a large group of users, or usb2.0 working for an equally large group of users. Considering that both problems have work arounds, the decision was made based on expected behavior. Usually a system with usb2.0 ports that were affected by the problem also had usb1.0-only ports that did work. So users could continue to use their devices without much problem (although at a slower speed).

Also, please don't exaggerate how many people are affected by this. Over all, it's a small percentage of people. I have > 15 laptops, covering a large range of chipsets, and none of them are affected by either problem.