From: Karel Zak Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:37:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: rtcwake: add note about HW and sleep to the man page X-Git-Tag: v2.31.1~39 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=478b9027605345085619b725ac77dce12f41fb0e;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git rtcwake: add note about HW and sleep to the man page Addresses: https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/527 Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- diff --git a/sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in b/sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in index 41bbd85e00..b35860113c 100644 --- a/sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in +++ b/sys-utils/rtcwake.8.in @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ appropriate for such suspend modes. .PP Note that alarm functionality depends on hardware; not every RTC is able to setup an alarm up to 24 hours in the future. +.PP +The suspend setup maybe be interrupted by active hardware; for example wireless USB +input devices that continue to send events for some fraction of a second after the +return key is pressed. In this case is better to use sleep command before invoking +suspend by rtcwake. .SH OPTIONS .TP .BR \-A , " \-\-adjfile " \fIfile