Re: [GIT PULL] PM updates for 2.6.33

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Dec 07 2009 - 17:26:55 EST




On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Alan Stern wrote:
>
> There's no need to suspend the individual devices when the whole system
> is going down. They will automatically suspend when the controller
> stops sending out SOF packets, which occurs when the root hub is
> suspended. The USB spec describes this, grandiosely, as a "global
> suspend".

Ahh, but the sync vs async would then still matter on resume. No?

Linus
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