Re: [rfc/rft]power management for btusb

Oliver Neukum
2008-08-20T16:04:54Z

Am Mittwoch 20 August 2008 17:55:23 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>

> > is there any way to make it default if we know it works all the time?
>
> No, probably not. But in general we don't know that. And we do know
> that a fair number of devices really are broken in this way -- lots of
> printers or scanners have this problem. Too many for us to want to
> keep a blacklist in the kernel, as Oliver mentioned.
>
> The idea is that some desktop management program, like hal, should be
> able to recognize which devices can autosuspend safely and then enable
> them. That way the whole problem is pushed out to userspace. :-)

You could write a udev rule.

Regards
Oliver