On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:21:06AM -0700, Azael Avalos wrote: > Hi there, > > Sorry for the late reply. > > 2015-01-20 4:15 GMT-07:00 Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>: > > On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 18:30 -0700, Azael Avalos wrote: > >> The following patches add support to several USB Sleep functions > >> found on newer Toshiba laptops, allowing to use the USB ports while > >> the laptop is asleep or turned off. > > > > Hi, > > > > this is most interesting. But the interface is terrible. If > > Well, I'm just providing the on/off switch on Toshiba specific hardware, > but I'm unaware/unfamiliar with how other vendors implement this > feature. > > > possible we would like to have a generic interface for this, > > which should not depend on the specific platform in use and would > > have to be per bus or even per port (for example the ports on a > > Thunderbolt dock would not work with your module). > > Sounds good, as not all ports carry such functionality, on my > current laptop only two ports provide this, the other two are just > normal USB 2/3 ports (configurable ;-) ). > > > Do you think we could provide a hook from generic code into > > platform code to detect the capability for power control? > > If there's an existing API already, I'll be glad to modify the code to > use it, if it doesn't exist yet, I'll simply adapt the code to the chosen > standard whenever becomes available. Given the ACPI calls which are platform specific, a general purpose driver doesn't seem likely. I'm keeping this queued as is unless you ask me to drop it Azael. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
