[Debian-eeepc-devel] [PATCH] Enable usb autosuspend for webcams

[Luca Niccoli]

2009/11/3 Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>:

> A wishlist bug on udev, the kernel or even laptop-mode-tools.

As far as I can see, the maintainer policy for udev and kernel in
Debian will never let this through; I'm not even going to try.
laptop-mode-tools is not [laptop-]universal just as
eeepc-acpi-scripts, it only has a higher popcon, so it is not a
solution either [1].

> I agree with SynrG that eeepc-acpi-scripts shall be trimmed of
> anything that is not specific to the Eee (and even the Eee-specific
> stuff could find its place in other packages). Your patch seems like
> a step in the opposite direction.

I agree.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's a chance to get a patch rejected
upstream in the debian kernel, or an additional rule in udev - the
places I think it belongs.
If you think that it's not acceptable as a stop-gap solution in
eeepc-acpi-scritps, and we don't find a proper solution that we can
actually get through, I'm fine with waiting for (some) upstream to fix
it - on my 901 I see 0.3W of difference, big but not unbearable.
Cheers,

Luca

[1]
Moreover, it doesn't fit in the way l-m-t works: autosuspend is
something that one would want to keep always active, since there's not
really a reason to turn it of on AC power.