1 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/persist
4 Contact: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
6 USB device directories can contain a file named power/persist.
7 The file holds a boolean value (0 or 1) indicating whether or
8 not the "USB-Persist" facility is enabled for the device. For
9 hubs this facility is always enabled and their device
10 directories will not contain this file.
12 For more information, see Documentation/usb/persist.txt.
14 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/autosuspend
17 Contact: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
19 Each USB device directory will contain a file named
20 power/autosuspend. This file holds the time (in seconds)
21 the device must be idle before it will be autosuspended.
22 0 means the device will be autosuspended as soon as
23 possible. Negative values will prevent the device from
24 being autosuspended at all, and writing a negative value
25 will resume the device if it is already suspended.
27 The autosuspend delay for newly-created devices is set to
28 the value of the usbcore.autosuspend module parameter.
30 What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/connected_duration
33 Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
35 If CONFIG_PM is enabled, then this file is present. When read,
36 it returns the total time (in msec) that the USB device has been
37 connected to the machine. This file is read-only.
39 PowerTOP <powertop@lists.01.org>
40 https://01.org/powertop/
42 What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../power/active_duration
45 Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
47 If CONFIG_PM is enabled, then this file is present. When read,
48 it returns the total time (in msec) that the USB device has been
49 active, i.e. not in a suspended state. This file is read-only.
51 Tools can use this file and the connected_duration file to
52 compute the percentage of time that a device has been active.
54 echo $((100 * `cat active_duration` / `cat connected_duration`))
55 will give an integer percentage. Note that this does not
56 account for counter wrap.
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59 https://01.org/powertop/
61 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/<busnum>-<port[.port]>...:<config num>-<interface num>/supports_autosuspend
64 Contact: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
66 When read, this file returns 1 if the interface driver
67 for this interface supports autosuspend. It also
68 returns 1 if no driver has claimed this interface, as an
69 unclaimed interface will not stop the device from being
70 autosuspended if all other interface drivers are idle.
71 The file returns 0 if autosuspend support has not been
75 git://git.moblin.org/users/sarah/usb-pm-tool/
77 What: /sys/bus/usb/device/.../avoid_reset_quirk
79 Contact: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
81 Writing 1 to this file tells the kernel that this
82 device will morph into another mode when it is reset.
83 Drivers will not use reset for error handling for
88 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../devnum
89 KernelVersion: since at least 2.6.18
91 Device address on the USB bus.
95 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../bConfigurationValue
96 KernelVersion: since at least 2.6.18
98 bConfigurationValue of the *active* configuration for the
99 device. Writing 0 or -1 to bConfigurationValue will reset the
100 active configuration (unconfigure the device). Writing
101 another value will change the active configuration.
103 Note that some devices, in violation of the USB spec, have a
104 configuration with a value equal to 0. Writing 0 to
105 bConfigurationValue for these devices will install that
106 configuration, rather then unconfigure the device.
108 Writing -1 will always unconfigure the device.
112 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../busnum
113 KernelVersion: 2.6.22
115 Bus-number of the USB-bus the device is connected to.
119 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../descriptors
120 KernelVersion: 2.6.26
122 Binary file containing cached descriptors of the device. The
123 binary data consists of the device descriptor followed by the
124 descriptors for each configuration of the device.
125 Note that the wTotalLength of the config descriptors can not
126 be trusted, as the device may have a smaller config descriptor
127 than it advertises. The bLength field of each (sub) descriptor
128 can be trusted, and can be used to seek forward one (sub)
129 descriptor at a time until the next config descriptor is found.
130 All descriptors read from this file are in bus-endian format
134 What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../speed
135 KernelVersion: since at least 2.6.18
137 Speed the device is connected with to the usb-host in
138 Mbit / second. IE one of 1.5 / 12 / 480 / 5000.