Re: Link PM policy advice?

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On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:51:53PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> 
> > One way we could work around these broken devices is have a dynamic
> > black list of device vendor and product IDs that shouldn't have LPM
> > enabled.  We already have such a black list in the xHCI driver for
> > devices that don't handle USB 2.0 LPM.
> > 
> > My idea is to add the device to the black list if USB core control
> > transfers start timing out, or any URBs complete with transfer errors.
> > That way when the device reconnects (as the SIIG hub does), we won't
> > enable LPM again.  The SIIG hub stops responding to the second control
> > transfer needed to enable LPM (Set Feature Device initiated LPM), so we
> > catch the failure pretty early on in the enumeration process.
> > 
> > The other option is to just create a sysfs file for USB 3.0 link PM,
> > turn it off by default, and leave it up to userspace.  But that means
> > basically no one will have it enabled.  So I'd like to pursue a dynamic
> > option in the kernel.
> 
> We could add a USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM flag and put a static entry for the 
> SIIG hub (and maybe other broken devices) in quirks.c.  xhci-hcd could 
> set this flag when it sees control transfers timing out or other 
> transfer errors.

That sounds like a good idea to me as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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