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1 What:           /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/autosuspend
2 Date:           March 2007
3 KernelVersion:  2.6.21
4 Contact:        Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
5 Description:
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/persist
18 Date:           May 2007
19 KernelVersion:  2.6.23
20 Contact:        Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
21 Description:
22                 If CONFIG_USB_PERSIST is set, then each USB device directory
23                 will contain a file named power/persist.  The file holds a
24                 boolean value (0 or 1) indicating whether or not the
25                 "USB-Persist" facility is enabled for the device.  Since the
26                 facility is inherently dangerous, it is disabled by default
27                 for all devices except hubs.  For more information, see
28                 Documentation/usb/persist.txt.
30 What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/connected_duration
31 Date:           January 2008
32 KernelVersion:  2.6.25
33 Contact:        Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
34 Description:
35                 If CONFIG_PM and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND are enabled, then this file
36                 is present.  When read, it returns the total time (in msec)
37                 that the USB device has been connected to the machine.  This
38                 file is read-only.
39 Users:
40                 PowerTOP <power@bughost.org>
41                 http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/
43 What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/active_duration
44 Date:           January 2008
45 KernelVersion:  2.6.25
46 Contact:        Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
47 Description:
48                 If CONFIG_PM and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND are enabled, then this file
49                 is present.  When read, it returns the total time (in msec)
50                 that the USB device has been active, i.e. not in a suspended
51                 state.  This file is read-only.
53                 Tools can use this file and the connected_duration file to
54                 compute the percentage of time that a device has been active.
55                 For example,
56                 echo $((100 * `cat active_duration` / `cat connected_duration`))
57                 will give an integer percentage.  Note that this does not
58                 account for counter wrap.
59 Users:
60                 PowerTOP <power@bughost.org>
61                 http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/
63 What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/<busnum>-<devnum>...:<config num>-<interface num>/supports_autosuspend
64 Date:           January 2008
65 KernelVersion:  2.6.27
66 Contact:        Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
67 Description:
68                 When read, this file returns 1 if the interface driver
69                 for this interface supports autosuspend.  It also
70                 returns 1 if no driver has claimed this interface, as an
71                 unclaimed interface will not stop the device from being
72                 autosuspended if all other interface drivers are idle.
73                 The file returns 0 if autosuspend support has not been
74                 added to the driver.
75 Users:
76                 USB PM tool
77                 git://git.moblin.org/users/sarah/usb-pm-tool/
79 What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/.../authorized
80 Date:           July 2008
81 KernelVersion:  2.6.26
82 Contact:        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
83 Description:
84                 Authorized devices are available for use by device
85                 drivers, non-authorized one are not.  By default, wired
86                 USB devices are authorized.
88                 Certified Wireless USB devices are not authorized
89                 initially and should be (by writing 1) after the
90                 device has been authenticated.
92 What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/.../wusb_cdid
93 Date:           July 2008
94 KernelVersion:  2.6.27
95 Contact:        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
96 Description:
97                 For Certified Wireless USB devices only.
99                 A devices's CDID, as 16 space-separated hex octets.
101 What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/.../wusb_ck
102 Date:           July 2008
103 KernelVersion:  2.6.27
104 Contact:        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
105 Description:
106                 For Certified Wireless USB devices only.
108                 Write the device's connection key (CK) to start the
109                 authentication of the device.  The CK is 16
110                 space-separated hex octets.
112 What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/.../wusb_disconnect
113 Date:           July 2008
114 KernelVersion:  2.6.27
115 Contact:        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
116 Description:
117                 For Certified Wireless USB devices only.
119                 Write a 1 to force the device to disconnect
120                 (equivalent to unplugging a wired USB device).
122 What:           /sys/bus/usb/drivers/.../remove_id
123 Date:           November 2009
124 Contact:        CHENG Renquan <rqcheng@smu.edu.sg>
125 Description:
126                 Writing a device ID to this file will remove an ID
127                 that was dynamically added via the new_id sysfs entry.
128                 The format for the device ID is:
129                 idVendor idProduct.     After successfully
130                 removing an ID, the driver will no longer support the
131                 device.  This is useful to ensure auto probing won't
132                 match the driver to the device.  For example:
133                 # echo "046d c315" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/foo/remove_id
135 What:           /sys/bus/usb/device/.../avoid_reset_quirk
136 Date:           December 2009
137 Contact:        Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
138 Description:
139                 Writing 1 to this file tells the kernel that this
140                 device will morph into another mode when it is reset.
141                 Drivers will not use reset for error handling for
142                 such devices.
143 Users:
144                 usb_modeswitch