Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] USB: quirks: Check device interface LPM capability

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:49:09AM -0500, Kyle Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 12:37:09PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 08:47:21PM -0500, Kyle Williams wrote:
> > > From: Kyle Williams <kdgwill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Description: enable the ability to disable LPM for all devices matched
> > > by interface information
> > 
> > Why have "Description:" in here?  Of course this is the description :)
> > 
> > And the subject doesn't make much sense, what does this have to do with
> > quirks?
> > 
> > Also, you need more information here in the description about why you
> > are doing all of this, as it is, I have no idea why this patch is needed
> > at all.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> It seems the underlying issue has been solved in
> 0472bf0 xhci: Prevent U1/U2 link pm states if exit latency is too long
> 
> However, the patch to fix the issue when matching the USB_QUIRK_NO_LPM
> quirk by iterface could be useful in the future. Currently nothing will
> happen that quirk is matched by interface instead of by vid/pid pair.
> Is their anything that would need to be changed besides removing the
> Description tag?

Don't add code to the kernel that is not used now.  If in the future
someone needs to add this type of functionality, worry about it then...

thanks,

greg k-h