Re: [patch]aggessive autosuspend for HID devices (resent due to corruption)

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Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2008 14:28:12 schrieb Jiri Kosina:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> > This uses the USB busy mechanism for aggessive autosuspend of USB HID 
> > devices. It autosuspends all opened devices supporting remote wakeup 
> > after a timeout unless
> > 
> > - output is being done to the device
> > - a key is being held down (remote wakeup isn't triggered upon key release)
> > - LED(s) are lit
> > - hiddev is opened
> 
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> doesn't hidraw (the generic transport-independent variant of 
> USB-specific hiddev) need also some handling?

Good point. Yes, it does.

This leaves me with two problems.

1. The HID API doesn't tell me why a device is opened. Add a flag?
2. hidraw calls open with a spinlock held. I suggest converting it to a mutex.

What do you think?

	Regards
		Oliver
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