Regarding Wake On USB input from S3 Sleep
Hans Petter Selasky
hps at selasky.org
Sun Feb 14 09:14:50 UTC 2016
On 02/14/16 09:48, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:17:31 -0800, Luke wrote:
> > > I searched the wiki on 'USB power' but noticed only sections 4 and 10 of
> > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption seemed to relate at all.
> > > If that's it or not, I'd appreciate some more guidance ..
>
> > That's correct, section 10 from that wiki page.
> > Here's all I did:
> >
> > $ sudo usbconfig
> > (it then lists all USB related devices)
> > $ sudo usbconfig -d 1.3 power_save
> > (then put a device into powersave mode. I put this in a script)
> >
> > and that was it for me. The zenbook almost imediately reports an extra
> > hour of battery and I can confirm it does indeed extend it's life to
> > close to an hour.
>
> Ah, right. Mine (6 uhci and 2 ehci root hubs) are all already in
> pwr=SAVE mode, except for the so far unused webcam:
>
> ugen3.2: <product 0x480c Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.> at usbus3, cfg=0
> md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (100mA)
>
> Setting that to power_save saved about 150mW, or 30mA at 5V. Only a few
> extra minutes (~2%) of battery life, but every little bit helps, thanks.
>
> Not that that's really anything to do with the $subject ..
>
Hi,
By default our USB stack only enables power save for USB HUBs, because
it assumes that non-USB HUB device, might be broken with regard to
suspend. Your findings make sense.
--HPS
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