Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspendby default on certain device classes

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Aug 03 2007 - 11:31:20 EST


On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, David Brownell wrote:

> And could you elaborate on "many"? What proportion of HID devices (by
> volume, model, etc) seem to have problems?

Last time I tried with two random USB keyboards - one from Logitech and
one from Chicony, I don't remember the exact PIDs, but could look them up
if it is interesting for someone.

> The specific failure I saw was that the device advertised itself as
> supporting remote wakeup, but it couldn't issue that signaling. It came
> back from suspend just fine ... but moving or clicking would not do what
> it should.

What I have been seeing with both these keyboards was: if connected to
UHCI controller, root hub not auto-suspended, as soon as they got
autosuspended, and keys were pressed on them rapidly, very often some
keypressess got lost. I didn't experience this on OHCI, but I remember
Alan saying that he triggered it on OHCI too, right?

Seemed like a timing issue - by lowering the polling timeout we were able
to make things much better, but that of course costs us more power etc.
and it's even not sure if it is an ultimate solution.

--
Jiri Kosina
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