Am Samstag 28 Juni 2008 18:33:30 schrieb Alan Stern: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > In hindsight adding that interface at all was an error. I was in favor > > of it and that was a mistake. Maybe it should be removed. > > Complicating good drivers for its sake I therefore consider an error. > > Possibly we should consider a forcible suspension a form of disconnection. > > Are you suggesting that the "off" value in /sys/.../power/level > shouldn't be allowed? I don't see it that way -- there's no other > mechanism for userspace to force a USB device into the low-power state. Unfortunately. > Forcing a disconnection during suspend might be a good idea. But if > you do, is there any reason to consider manual suspension different > from system sleep? During system sleep user space is asleep and cannot make demands on drivers. If you force a device to sleep, the driver cannot work. Therefore it should not be bound to such a device. It's cleaner to disconnect. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
