On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:29:51PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Yan Li wrote: > > On it's manual read "you should unplug and remove the device only when > > the light is off." > > It's not clear whether you should believe this. The manual may have > overstated things. Still, better to be safe. Yeah, that maybe true. Better to be safe. And we can't tell users just to ignore the warnings on the manual. > > On Windows and Mac OS, `safely remove this device' function effectly > > turns it into `suspend' mode, and it's light off. > > Yes -- but they don't suspend the device; instead they disable its > upstream port. As far as the device is concerned, there's no > difference. However the Linux API doesn't include any way to disable a > USB port. Maybe we should add one... Definitely. > > I did a > > quick search in LKML and haven't found specific oppose to enable USB > > suspend by default, and Debian has started shipping a kernel with > > it turned on since 2.6.26. > > > > Perhaps we should consider turning it on by default? Thanks! > > That is indeed the next step to take. Hope to see this happen soon. -- Li, Yan -- 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
