[linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] Make sleep/wakeup work with USB on powerbooks

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> I am currently using this patch on my powerbook to fix the problems
> that USB was causing with sleep and wakeup.  Basically one of the USB
> controllers was getting a spurious wakeup immediately when put it
> into the suspend state.  This would cause the resume routine to be run
> after we had turned off the device, causing a machine check.

Is this just a hardware glitch or does it go deeper?

> Also we had some races where we would turn off the clock to the apple
> OHCI cell(s) and then try to access them.  With this patch, sleep and
> wakeup are quite reliable.  The patch is against 2.6.11.

Aside from the ppc-specific portions, the changes you made to hcd-pci.c 
resemble those I just posted in

http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2005-March/000616.html

(meant for the gregkh-2.6 USB development tree).

Alan Stern