On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 08:25:20PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 02:14:04PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > If the hardware doesn't expect global suspend, that's a hardware issue.  
> > After all, global suspend is part of the USB-2 spec and we're talking 
> > about USB-2 hubs.
> 
> The response I got from the hardware team was basically: "Windows
> doesn't do global suspend.  Other external USB 2.0 hubs are likely to
> have issues as well."  Basically, a polite way of saying, "You're in
> uncharted territory, and likely to run into more bugs."
> 
> I would really really recommend not going down the global suspend path.
> I would *strongly* recommend we just revert the global suspend patches.

Ick, if Windows doesn't do it, we will run into problems, that's not
good at all.  How much work is it to revert things?

thanks,

greg k-h
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