Re: USB port power off discussion

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Hi,

Sarah Sharp wrote:
> Two weeks ago at Linux Plumbers Conference, I presented about the
> Intel Lynx Point USB port power off mechanism.

Good session with some participation, thanks to all!


> The end result of those patches is that we expose a sysfs file per USB
> port to userspace to allow users to set power to either on or off.  The
> port will only be powered off if all ports under the same power resource
> have the sysfs file set to off.

How will userspace know why powering off the port does not work?

Also, will there be usbfs API for turning these knobs, or will sysfs
be the one true way?


//Peter
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