Hi Samuel,
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 12:12:13 Samuel Xu wrote:
Question on uvcvideo driver's power management:
Q1: We found some USB material mentioned : Relationship between ACPI
Dx states and USB PM states (active/suspended) is orthogonal.
Suspend/resume might not effect device Dx state(e.g. D0/D1/D3). Is it
a correct statement for general usb device and uvcvideo usb device?
Q2: How to tell USB uvcvideo device’s ACPI Dx state. It seems lsusb
can’t tell us those info. (lspci works for PCI device’s Dx state)
Q3: How to tell USB uvcvideo device’s suspension state? will any query
via urb will cause resume of uvcvideo device?
Q4: should USB uvcvideo device driver response to do some
device-specific power action (e.g. device register writing) to put a
specific USB camera into low power state when responding to suspend
action? (I didn't find such device-specific power code inside uvcvideo
src code)
Q5: If Q4 is Yes, should device vendor respond for those device-specific
code?
Power management for UVC devices is handled at the USB level. There's nothing
UVC-specific to it. You've received answers to those questions on the linux-
usb list so I won't go into a lot of details (there are developers more
knowledgeable about USB power management on linux-usb).
In a nutshell, USB devices have a single suspended state instead of ACPI Dx
states. Devices must suspend themselves if they don't see any bus activity for
at 3ms (idle bus). Activity doesn't require the driver to perform any action
explicitly, the USB host controller will send a Start Of Frame packet every
millisecond on its own.
Stopping activity is achieved by sending a SET_FEATURE(PORT_SUSPEND) request
to the hub the device is connected to (either root hub, or external hub)
asking it to stop USB traffic on the device port. Resuming activity is then
done with the CLEAR_FEATURE(PORT_SUSPEND) request.
The job of the driver, before suspend, is to save the device state (if
required) and kill all URBs. On resume the driver will then restore the device
state and resubmit the URBs.
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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