On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 08:07:01PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
 > On Sunday 15 July 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > Before I dig deeper, are there other side-effects of changing
 > > this default ?
 > 
 > Other than spending more power than necessary?  :)
 > 
 > I don't think there should be, but Alan's most on top of these
 > particular issues.  The main thing I'd worry about is root hubs,
 > which may be performing undesirable periodic DMAs (1/msec or more
 > often) if they aren't allowed to suspend their downstream links.
 > (Called, misleadingly, "global" suspend even though it's limited
 > to a single USB bus.)

Would this be any different from the status quo of having
CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND not set though ?   We've had this disabled until
now, without notable bad effects (or at least, nothing that we've
attributed to having this off).

 > I think we've been finding out a consequence of Microsoft's rarely
 > using the USB suspend mode:  devices don't get tested with it, so
 > many of them don't support it correctly.

I'm shocked ;-)

        Dave

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