On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 10:57 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > One possible solution is to export a sysfs parameter to prevent > statistics collection (or more generally, to change the interval at > which it occurs). Surely, not performing a task can hardly be beaten in terms of power consumption. That is not meant to be flippant, but I think these issues are orthogonal. The question of how much to do doesn't solve the question of doing efficiently what we do. > But checking the runtime_auto flag is probably not a great idea. Even > if it isn't set, collecting statistics is likely to wait up a device > that otherwise would have remained suspended. > > Perhaps the best solution is to collect the statistics only when the > device is not suspended or is about to suspend. If we know when the next activity will come, why not pass this information down? Regards Oliver -- 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
