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From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.{9,10}: C3 not working once USB driver gets loaded (ThinkPad T40p)
Date: 27 Dec 2004 21:39:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1104201565.18173.36.camel@d845pe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041226205053.GA27671@louise.pinerecords.com>

On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 15:50, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In recent kernels (tried 2.6.9, 2.6.10), after I load the uhci_hcd
> module, the processor never goes to state C3.  Unloading the module
> again puts things back to normal.  The system is an IBM ThinkPad T40p.
> 
> Is the USB driver setting some kinda flag in the ACPI subsystem to
> achieve this behavior intentionally or is this a bug?

It is not a Linux bug -- it is a system hardware architecture flaw.

There is a workaround for this issue called
USB Selective Suspend, which you can google and
read all about.  Hopefully we'll have this workaround
available on Linux systems before too long.

cheers,
-Len




      reply	other threads:[~2004-12-28  2:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-26 20:50 2.6.{9,10}: C3 not working once USB driver gets loaded (ThinkPad T40p) Tomas Szepe
2004-12-28  2:39 ` Len Brown [this message]

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