> > We go to considerable lengths to present interfaces as devices. Each
> > interface would be its own input device to user space. We should not
> > make it important which logical devices are grouped together physically.
> 
> Taken to its logical conclusion, your argument says that the inactivity
> delay shouldn't be set at the USB layer at all -- it should be set at the
> input layer and propagated up somehow.

Indeed. Now we could again debate whether autosuspend belongs into
USB at all.
 
[..]
>       autosuspend_delay > 0 && test_and_clear_bit(DEVICE_BUSY, ...) == 0
> 
> where autosuspend_delay <= 0 means the user wants the interface never to
> be autosuspended.  If any of the test_and_clear_bit() checks fail, you
> want the routine to set the next timeout to the maximum of the
> corresponding autosuspend_delay values.

Yes.
 
> All this in addition to the standard device-wide autosuspend delay, which
> will also be settable via sysfs.  The initial timeout value should be set 
> to the maximum of the device-wide delay and the interface delays.
> 
> Is that right?

Yes.

        Regards
                Oliver

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