linux-imx/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-bus-usb
Alan Stern a90309860b USB: deprecate the power/level sysfs attribute
This patch (as1367) deprecates USB's power/level sysfs attribute in
favor of the power/control attribute provided by the runtime PM core.
The two attributes do the same thing.

It would be nice to replace power/level with a symlink to
power/control, but at the moment sysfs doesn't offer any way to do so.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-20 13:21:37 -07:00

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What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/level Date: March 2007 KernelVersion: 2.6.21 Contact: Alan Stern stern@rowland.harvard.edu Description: Each USB device directory will contain a file named power/level. This file holds a power-level setting for the device, either "on" or "auto".

	"on" means that the device is not allowed to autosuspend,
	although normal suspends for system sleep will still
	be honored.  "auto" means the device will autosuspend
	and autoresume in the usual manner, according to the
	capabilities of its driver.

	During normal use, devices should be left in the "auto"
	level.  The "on" level is meant for administrative uses.
	If you want to suspend a device immediately but leave it
	free to wake up in response to I/O requests, you should
	write "0" to power/autosuspend.

	Device not capable of proper suspend and resume should be
	left in the "on" level.  Although the USB spec requires
	devices to support suspend/resume, many of them do not.
	In fact so many don't that by default, the USB core
	initializes all non-hub devices in the "on" level.  Some
	drivers may change this setting when they are bound.

	This file is deprecated and will be removed after 2010.
	Use the power/control file instead; it does exactly the
	same thing.