Transmit under power save mode

Marcelo Tosatti marcelo at kvack.org
Sun Jul 2 02:28:04 EDT 2006


On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:04:48PM -0700, Ronak Chokshi wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> The USB driver should follow the general PS driver Tx/Rx rule just like
> other interfaces.
> 
>  
> 
> The FW implementation for USB has some difference from others. During
> sleep state, the CPU and USB interface are not power off. This is to
> maintain the USB bus connection alive while the device is asleep. But it
> is not for data transfer. The FW can process some USP specific
> interrupt, but the data packet is blocked.
> 
>  
> 
> And another related question is, do you have implementation of driver
> code for different buses?
> 
> >> Not sure what you mean by this. Yes, we do have driver implementation
> for other buses but they are pretty much the same from PS mode
> stand-point.

Do you plan to submit them for inclusion in the mainline kernel?




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