Re: [PATCH] retain USB device power/wakeup setting across reconfiguration

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On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, David Brownell wrote:

> On Friday 18 December 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
> > It's kind of awkward since the code
> > in usb_set_device_state uses the ATT_WAKEUP bit in bmAttributes to
> > determine whether a device is wakeup-capable, whereas rh_call_control
> > in hcd.c uses the device's wakeup-capable bit to determine whether to
> > set ATT_WAKEUP in bmAttributes.  In other words, the flow of
> > information is backward for root hubs as compared with other devices.
> 
> The flow of information is consistently from device to core;
> what you're observing is just a quirk of how ATT_WAKEUP gets
> set to a nonzero value.  :)

That's true.  IMO it would be less confusing if rh_call_control used a
bit in the hcd structure to determine the setting of ATT_WAKEUP and
then the core used ATT_WAKEUP to determine whether the root hub is
wakeup-capable, just like it does with other USB devices.

Alan Stern

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