This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: usb-storage: implement autosuspend to my gregkh-2.6 tree which can be found in directory form at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/ and in git form at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/patches.git The filename of this patch is: usb-usb-storage-implement-autosuspend.patch The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) If this patch meets the merge guidelines for a bugfix, it should be merged into Linus's tree before the next major kernel release. If not, it will be merged into Linus's tree during the next merge window. Either way, you will probably be copied on the patch when it gets sent to Linus for merging so that others can see what is happening in kernel development. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From stern+4c5c36d6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Aug 2 16:02:08 2010 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:12:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx>, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx>, SCSI development list <linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, USB Storage list <usb-storage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: USB: usb-storage: implement autosuspend Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1007281702030.1744-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch (as1400) adds runtime-PM support to usb-storage. It utilizes the SCSI layer's runtime-PM implementation, so its scope is limited. Currently the only effect is that disk-like devices (such as card readers or flash drives) will be autosuspended if they aren't mounted and their device files aren't open. This would apply, for example, to card readers that don't contain a memory card. Unfortunately this won't interact very well with the removable-media polling normally carried out by hal or DeviceKit. Maybe those programs can be changed to use a longer polling interval, or maybe the default autosuspend time for usb-storage should be set to something below 1 second. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/storage/usb.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/usb.c @@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ static int usb_stor_control_thread(void else { US_DEBUG(usb_stor_show_command(us->srb)); us->proto_handler(us->srb, us); + usb_mark_last_busy(us->pusb_dev); } /* lock access to the state */ @@ -845,6 +846,7 @@ static int usb_stor_scan_thread(void * _ /* Should we unbind if no devices were detected? */ } + usb_autopm_put_interface(us->pusb_intf); complete_and_exit(&us->scanning_done, 0); } @@ -968,6 +970,7 @@ int usb_stor_probe2(struct us_data *us) goto BadDevice; } + usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume(us->pusb_intf); wake_up_process(th); return 0; @@ -1040,6 +1043,7 @@ static struct usb_driver usb_storage_dri .pre_reset = usb_stor_pre_reset, .post_reset = usb_stor_post_reset, .id_table = usb_storage_usb_ids, + .supports_autosuspend = 1, .soft_unbind = 1, }; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html