linux-kernel - Re: Suspend and resume on ASUS Laptops

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Date:	Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:54:43 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Michal Jaegermann <michal@...pspace.math.ualberta.ca>
cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Suspend and resume on ASUS Laptops

On Sat, 3 Dec 2011, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 10:19:27AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > > 
> > > On my ASUS K52Jc these controllers are also reported "disabled".  This
> > 
> > What exactly do you mean by that?
> 
> I mean that you asked Steven about a content of
> /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:1[ad].0/power/wakeup
> On my ASUS K52Jc these ids also happen to belong to ehci_hcd devices
> (both "Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host
> Controller") and both 'wakeup' files show "disabled" too.

Oh, sorry -- I didn't realize you meant the power/wakeup file contained 
"disabled".  It sounded like you were saying that the controllers were 
somehow disabled.

> With that above I have to do all these manipulations with unbinding
> and binding drivers and removing inserting modules or a laptop will hang
> after a suspend.  Now with a recent kernel I need additionally put
> wireless driver modules on a "special handling" list or I will loose
> such connection (no hang here, just a dead driver).
> 
> All of this looks like pretty consistent, from what one can find on the
> net, across various models of ASUS laptops.

Yes, apparently ASUS's recent chipsets or firmware has a problem with
suspend and resume.  On the other hand, I'm writing this on an ASUS
UL20A laptop, which suspends and resumes with no difficulty.

Alan Stern

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