Re: [PATCH] PNPACPI: Enable Power Support

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 10:53:15 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > Although I do wonder WTF we don't do that on our USB UHCI/EHCI kernel
> > drivers, that ACPI needs to step in to fix it.  If it is not a wake
> 
> EHCI/UHCI have no way to power down host controllers.
> It needs external means, namely ACPI.

I see.  So we can't just set the pci devices to D0 to cut power to the USB
ports and USB controller while in STR?  Must be the EC stuff I just noticed
in the ACPI AML, then.

> > device, why are we leaving it powered up?  It is bad enough we don't
> > have any sort of proper USB power control, but to leave the entire USB
> > subsystem powered up without reason?!
> 
> We don't. If you unplug all devices, USB will power down as much as is
> compatible with detecting new devices.

Thanks for the update.

> > Vista not only powers down the USB HCIs and ports on STR, it also
> > powers down ports when you "safely remove the USB device", and seems
> > to leave the port powered down until you insert a device (or remove
> > the device already in there, whatever).
> 
> If you cut power to a port, you cannot detect a hotplugging. You can
> suspend it, which Linux does do.

Hmm, probably it is just suspend, then (outside of STR.  On STR, it *is*
somehow powering down the ports when no wake devices are there, but that
might be done using extra stuff, and not just the PCI functions of the Intel
ICH6 EHCI/UHCI controllers).

I guess our userspace is not doing the suspend on "safely remove" then?
Because at least here, it is not behaving as Windows does when I tell KDE to
"safely eject" (which probably ends up being a HAL request of some sort).

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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