Re: [PATCH] PNPACPI: Enable Power Support

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Witold Szczeponik wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Mon, 08 Dec 2008, Witold Szczeponik wrote:
>>> This patch sets the power of PnP ACPI devices to D0 when they
>>> are activated and to D3 when they are disabled.  The latter is
>>
>> This will likely fix my T43 to power down USB during STR. THANKS!!
>> Now, I just need to check if the ACPI BIOS is smart enough to not do
>> it when they are configured as wake devices [in the BIOS].
>>
>
> Most likely it won't. :-(  My patch takes only care of devices that are
> properly registered as PnP by ACPI: attached USB devices don't fall
> under that category.

I do mean the UHCI and EHCI bridges, not USB devices hanging off them :)

I will do an in-depth study of the AML in question, I just noticed it is
coupled to some EC magic register, which might be doing stuff the USB
subsystem just can't do normally.

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  Henrique Holschuh