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From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: "Morales, Alejandra" <alejandra.morales@tum.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Questions about Runtime Power Management
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:21:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6962070.dqPY4e5mso@linux-5eaq.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E3F9C2076C45D4783F09B90D5BE77CE171D3B@BADWLRZ-SWMBX14.ads.mwn.de>

On Tuesday 11 June 2013 07:53:10 Morales, Alejandra wrote:
> 2013/6/10 Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>

> > You need to furthermore realise that there are forms of runtime PM independent
> > of the generic kernel based runtime PM (hdparm, USB LPM, ...)
> 
> 
> Thanks Oliver, that was helpful. I will try now to do my testing using USB devices as it will likely be easier.

Note:

1. for most usb devices the default for runtime PM is off (powertop will help)
2. all a device's interface drivers must support it (look at the kernel source for .supports_autosuspend = 1)
3. If you want the HCD to go to D3 you need ACPI 5.0

	HTH
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-11  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-09 16:28 Questions about Runtime Power Management Morales, Alejandra
2013-06-10  8:39 ` Oliver Neukum
2013-06-11  7:53   ` Morales, Alejandra
2013-06-11  8:21     ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2013-06-16 15:07 ` Ming Lei
2013-06-16 22:15   ` Oliver Neukum

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