Re: USB autosuspend causing trouble with bluetooth

[Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>]

On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 18:58 +0400, Kirill Elagin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 16:18 +0400, Kirill Elagin wrote:
> >> I use a Logitech wireless keyboard (with a Unifying receiver) and it
> >> keeps working fine even with `auto`.
> >>
> >> That is, everything is OK if the receiver is plugged before
> >> `power/control` is switched to `auto`.
> >
> > Wait. There is no power/control file for the receiver before
> > you plug it in. We are having a very big misunderstanding here.
> 
> Sorry for not being clear. I was referring to `power/control` of the
> USB-device itself except for the cases when I was talking about
> hot-plugging issues — in those cases I was referring to the
> `power/control` of the root hub.

Please check whether you are not accidentally touching the ports
linux-0dmf:/sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/1-0:1.0/usb1-port1
At paths like this you find control files for ports, not the
root hub as a device.

> In this particular case I was talking about the `power/control` of the root hub.

OK, so autosuspend does work if you enable it for the device but
not the hub?

> `laptop-mode-tools` by default writes `auto` to `power/control` of
> _all_ the USB devices, root hubs included (even when on AC). Is it
> really expected that kernel might completely power off the physical
> USB port? Sounds weird.

It can. It is a recent feature if ACPI supports that on a machine.

> Here is an even more strange thing. First I set all the USB power
> management to the defaults (that is, `auto` for all the usb devices
> including root hubs). Again, the keyboard keeps working and as soon as
> I unplug the receiver kernel says the device was disconnected. Now if
> I plug the receiver back nothing happens. _But_ if I plug a flash
> drive in the save physical port it gets detected. So, I tried a number
> of other usb devices and it totally looks like USB2.0 ones are
> properly hot-plugged while USB1.1 devices are not. Does this sound to
> you like a bug in my laptop's hardware?

Could be, but could also be software.
Please double check where exactly an "on" is needed.

	Regards
		Oliver