On Tuesday 02 January 2007 8:16 am, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> > > > The USB autosuspend mechanism has been present for a while in -mm and is
> > > > included in 2.6.20-rc (although you have to turn on CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND,
> > > > which is off by default -- it would be nice to change that).
> > 
> > Call me paranoid, but I'd like to leave it this way for for a while yet
> > to shake out bugs.  There are some complicated interactions here, some
> > of which are hardware-specific, and we've only just started to really
> > shake out the associated problems.  (But yes, eventually we do want to
> > see that option go away, and this behavior be standard with PM enabled.)
> 
> The first step will be to make CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND default to Y.  We 
> should be able to do this reasonably soon, perhaps as early as 2.6.21.  
> 
> What do you think?

Let's see how the problem reports go after 2.6.20 ships.  Testing of this
kind of mechanism during the RC phases is spotty.

But yes, once related bugreports are known to be few, that's the next step.

- Dave

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