On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > > >> The reason I would like to use a refresh is to wake up the device > >> without opening it again. > > > > Why? And if you do want to wake up a device, what's wrong with opening > > it? > > Could the device go asleep after being opened? No, not until the device file is closed again. Alan Stern -- 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