Re: [PATCH resend 5/6] toshiba_acpi: Add support to enable/disable USB 3

[Azael Avalos]

Hi Darren,

2015-02-09 21:11 GMT-07:00 Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 08:34:53PM -0700, Azael Avalos wrote:
>> Toshiba laptops that come with USB 3 ports have a feature that lets
>> them disable USB 3 functionality and act as a regular USB 2 port, and
>> thus, saving power.
>>
>> This patch adds support to that feature, by creating a sysfs entry
>> named "usb_three", acceptig only two parameters, 0 to disable the
>> USB 3 (acting as a USB 2) and 1 to enable it.
>>
>
> Similar question, does the system BIOS allow you to configure this setting? If
> so, what would be the value for enabling it in the OS directly?

Yes.
A Toshiba provided app lets you configure all these parameters from Windows,
and so, I'm developing a similar app for this, a few clicks and your
settings are
changed on the next reboot :-)

>
> --
> Darren Hart
> Intel Open Source Technology Center

Cheers
Azael


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