This patch (as818b) simplifies autosuspend processing by keeping track
of the number of unsuspended children of each USB hub. This will
permit us to avoid a good deal of unnecessary work all the time; we
will no longer have to create a bunch of workqueue entries to carry
out autosuspend requests, only to have them fail because one of the
hub's children isn't suspended.
The basic idea is simple. There already is a usage counter in the
usb_device structure for preventing autosuspends. The patch just
increments that counter for every unsuspended child. There's only one
tricky part: When a device disconnects we need to remember whether it
was suspended at the time (leave the counter alone) or not (decrement
the counter).
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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