On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, Douglas Anderson wrote: > If the 'snps,need-phy-for-wake' is set in the device tree then: > > - We know that we can wakeup, so call device_set_wakeup_capable(). > The USB core will use this knowledge to enable wakeup by default. > - We know that we should keep the PHY on during suspend if something > on our root hub needs remote wakeup. This requires the patch (USB: > Export usb_wakeup_enabled_descendants()). Note that we don't keep > the PHY on at suspend time if it's not needed because it would be a > power draw. You know, this is the first time I've run across this optimization. In principle it applies to any USB host controller, not just to PHYs. There's no reason to enable wakeup for a controller if none of the attached devices can issue a wakeup request. I don't know if implementing this in other HCDs would save any power. Any ideas? Alan Stern
