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    USB: leave LPM alone if possible when binding/unbinding interface drivers · 15e67f90
    Alan Stern authored
    commit 6fb650d4 upstream.
    
    When a USB driver is bound to an interface (either through probing or
    by claiming it) or is unbound from an interface, the USB core always
    disables Link Power Management during the transition and then
    re-enables it afterward.  The reason is because the driver might want
    to prevent hub-initiated link power transitions, in which case the HCD
    would have to recalculate the various LPM parameters.  This
    recalculation takes place when LPM is re-enabled and the new
    parameters are sent to the device and its parent hub.
    
    However, if the driver does not want to prevent hub-initiated link
    power transitions then none of this work is necessary.  The parameters
    don't need to be recalculated, and LPM doesn't need to be disabled and
    re-enabled.
    
    It turns out that disabling and enabling LPM can be time-consuming,
    enough so that it interferes with user programs that want to claim and
    release interfaces rapidly via usbfs.  Since the usbfs kernel driver
    doesn't set the disable_hub_initiated_lpm flag, we can speed things up
    and get the user programs to work by leaving LPM alone whenever the
    flag isn't set.
    
    And while we're improving the way disable_hub_initiated_lpm gets used,
    let's also fix its kerneldoc.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
    Tested-by: default avatarMatthew Giassa <matthew@giassa.net>
    CC: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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