1 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/autosuspend
4 Contact: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
6 Each USB device directory will contain a file named
7 power/autosuspend. This file holds the time (in seconds)
8 the device must be idle before it will be autosuspended.
9 0 means the device will be autosuspended as soon as
10 possible. Negative values will prevent the device from
11 being autosuspended at all, and writing a negative value
12 will resume the device if it is already suspended.
14 The autosuspend delay for newly-created devices is set to
15 the value of the usbcore.autosuspend module parameter.
17 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/level
20 Contact: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
22 Each USB device directory will contain a file named
23 power/level. This file holds a power-level setting for
24 the device, one of "on", "auto", or "suspend".
26 "on" means that the device is not allowed to autosuspend,
27 although normal suspends for system sleep will still
28 be honored. "auto" means the device will autosuspend
29 and autoresume in the usual manner, according to the
30 capabilities of its driver. "suspend" means the device
31 is forced into a suspended state and it will not autoresume
32 in response to I/O requests. However remote-wakeup requests
33 from the device may still be enabled (the remote-wakeup
34 setting is controlled separately by the power/wakeup
37 During normal use, devices should be left in the "auto"
38 level. The other levels are meant for administrative uses.
39 If you want to suspend a device immediately but leave it
40 free to wake up in response to I/O requests, you should
41 write "0" to power/autosuspend.
43 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/persist
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48 If CONFIG_USB_PERSIST is set, then each USB device directory
49 will contain a file named power/persist. The file holds a
50 boolean value (0 or 1) indicating whether or not the
51 "USB-Persist" facility is enabled for the device. Since the
52 facility is inherently dangerous, it is disabled by default
53 for all devices except hubs. For more information, see
54 Documentation/usb/persist.txt.
56 What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/connected_duration
59 Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
61 If CONFIG_PM and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND are enabled, then this file
62 is present. When read, it returns the total time (in msec)
63 that the USB device has been connected to the machine. This
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69 What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/active_duration
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74 If CONFIG_PM and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND are enabled, then this file
75 is present. When read, it returns the total time (in msec)
76 that the USB device has been active, i.e. not in a suspended
77 state. This file is read-only.
79 Tools can use this file and the connected_duration file to
80 compute the percentage of time that a device has been active.
82 echo $((100 * `cat active_duration` / `cat connected_duration`))
83 will give an integer percentage. Note that this does not
84 account for counter wrap.
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