From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Filip Aben Subject: Re: [RFC] Patch to option HSO driver to the kernel Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:12:22 +0200 Message-ID: <1208268742.20681.29.camel@FWR-FLAB> References: <20080414213238.GB28833@kroah.com> <200804151525.57340.oliver@neukum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Greg KH , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Paulius Zaleckas , ajb@spheresystems.co.uk To: Oliver Neukum Return-path: Received: from mailer2.option.com ([81.246.70.163]:62313 "EHLO mailer2.option.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753693AbYDOOMX (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:12:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200804151525.57340.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 15:25 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Montag, 14. April 2008 23:32:39 schrieb Greg KH: > > Hi all, > > > > Here's a patch that I have cleaned up for context only from Option that > > is a USB serial / network device all in one. > > > > I'd like to see this go into 2.6.26, so any review comments by anyone > > who wishes to review any portion of this would be greatly apprecited. > > The driver implements an ioctl to disable autosuspend. This seems > unnecessary to me, as you can do that via sysfs, too. Is this included > to work around permission problems? Can somebody explain? > > Regards > Oliver This is added to support card firmware upgraders who will need to disable suspend, even on (embedded) systems that don't have sysfs mounted. Regards, Filip-