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From: Yan Li <elliot.li.tech@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Enable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND by default or some mobile HD can't be unplugged safely
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 21:23:56 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090102132355.GA4833@thyme.bj.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0901011225400.32126-100000@netrider.rowland.org>

On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:29:51PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Yan Li wrote:
> > On it's manual read "you should unplug and remove the device only when
> > the light is off."
> 
> It's not clear whether you should believe this.  The manual may have 
> overstated things.  Still, better to be safe.

Yeah, that maybe true. Better to be safe. And we can't tell users just
to ignore the warnings on the manual.

> > On Windows and Mac OS, `safely remove this device' function effectly
> > turns it into `suspend' mode, and it's light off.
> 
> Yes -- but they don't suspend the device; instead they disable its 
> upstream port.  As far as the device is concerned, there's no 
> difference.  However the Linux API doesn't include any way to disable a 
> USB port.  Maybe we should add one...

Definitely.

> >  I did a
> > quick search in LKML and haven't found specific oppose to enable USB
> > suspend by default, and Debian has started shipping a kernel with
> > it turned on since 2.6.26.
> > 
> > Perhaps we should consider turning it on by default?  Thanks!
> 
> That is indeed the next step to take.

Hope to see this happen soon.

-- 
Li, Yan

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-02 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-01 16:03 Enable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND by default or some mobile HD can't be unplugged safely Yan Li
2009-01-01 16:07 ` [PATCH] enable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND by default Yan Li
2009-01-01 17:29 ` Enable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND by default or some mobile HD can't be unplugged safely Alan Stern
2009-01-02 13:23   ` Yan Li [this message]
2009-01-01 17:32 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2009-01-01 17:45   ` Alan Stern
2009-01-02 13:37   ` Yan Li
2009-01-02 13:46     ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2009-01-01 19:09 ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-02  9:56 ` Tino Keitel
2009-01-02 14:00   ` Yan Li
2009-01-02 14:08     ` Tino Keitel
2009-01-02 14:28     ` Yan Li
2009-01-02 16:04     ` Alan Stern
2009-01-03  2:33       ` Yan Li
2009-01-02 15:50   ` Mark Lord
2009-01-02 15:51     ` Mark Lord
2009-01-02 18:15       ` Tino Keitel
2009-01-03  2:24         ` Yan Li

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