Re: [linux-usb-devel] Powering off individual ports

2006-01-24 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Steve Finney wrote: > This is an Atmel AT43312A 4 port hub on an embedded device, which looks > like it should support per-port power switching (it also looks like that > from the schematic, though we haven't tried it). But the current issue > is that the flash device on the p

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Powering off individual ports

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Finney
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:53 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > That having been said, you should note that almost none of the USB > controller hardware found in desktop/laptop computers and a surprisingly > small percentage of external hubs support port power control. (I say > surprisingly because pow

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Powering off individual ports

2006-01-24 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Steve Finney wrote: > Back in June 2004, Alan Stern answered a question about whether > it was possible to power off individual USB ports via /sys with > a resounding "No". Has this changed in later kernel versions? I notice > there is a devices/*/power/state file which is wri

[linux-usb-devel] Powering off individual ports

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Finney
Back in June 2004, Alan Stern answered a question about whether it was possible to power off individual USB ports via /sys with a resounding "No". Has this changed in later kernel versions? I notice there is a devices/*/power/state file which is writeable. Our particular issue is that we have a US