Howdy, I have a T530 with a built in webcam that uses the uvcvideo driver. Kernel 3.10.6, but the problem has been there for many kernel versions.
>From time to time (not always) it shows up at the top of powertop with an unexplained high power use while I'm not using the camera. Powertop says autosuspend is active: Note that tunables says: Good Autosuspend for USB device Integrated Camera [Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.] Unloading uvcvideo makes no difference. Here's the module info gandalfthegreat:/sys/bus/usb/drivers/uvcvideo# l total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 18 17:48 ./ drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 0 Sep 17 15:10 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 18 21:30 3-1.6:1.0 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.6/3-1.6:1.0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 18 21:30 3-1.6:1.1 -> ../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.6/3-1.6:1.1/ --w------- 1 root root 4096 Sep 18 21:30 bind lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Sep 18 21:30 module -> ../../../../module/uvcvideo/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 18 21:30 new_id -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Sep 18 21:30 remove_id --w------- 1 root root 4096 Sep 18 17:48 uevent --w------- 1 root root 4096 Sep 18 21:30 unbind gandalfthegreat:/sys/bus/usb/devices/3-1.6/power# grep . * active_duration:61227648 async:enabled autosuspend:2 autosuspend_delay_ms:2000 connected_duration:66830880 control:auto level:auto persist:1 runtime_active_kids:0 runtime_active_time:18870052 runtime_enabled:enabled runtime_status:active runtime_suspended_time:5324088 runtime_usage:0 powertop 2.4 output: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The battery reports a discharge rate of 18.4 W The estimated remaining time is 4 hours, 18 minutes Summary: 657.6 wakeups/second, 28.4 GPU ops/seconds, 0.0 VFS ops/sec and 9.3% CPU use Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description 12.2 W 100.0% Device USB device: Integrated Camera (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.) 997 mW 60.0% Device Display backlight 76.1 mW 34.9 µs/s 34.8 Process [rcu_preempt] 23.1 mW 1.5 ms/s 16.5 Process xfce4-terminal -T window11 --role=window11 9.20 mW 59.0 ms/s 347.4 Process /usr/bin/enlightenment --------------------------------------------------------------------- Now after I resumed from S3 sleep, this time I'm seeing 210 mW 100.0% Device USB device: Integrated Camera (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.) While the 100% is bad, 210mW isn't as bad compared to 12W below (I'm sure it's not really 12W). Any ideas? Thanks, Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 1024R/763BE901 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html