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authorStefan Agner <stefan.agner@toradex.com>2016-03-29 13:02:23 -0700
committerStefan Agner <stefan.agner@toradex.com>2016-03-29 13:02:23 -0700
commit1df133c0db64d633bbb9b238aa0e1588e2c5e7d6 (patch)
treec68d76907c523e81b5d0e8a924728f9e1aed1844 /Documentation
parent2b7d39d1a28cb478627fc22fdc8dd77ed89ffe92 (diff)
parent62e21959dc6f25c5fce0c1a0934e4a9d982bf99b (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.4.5' into toradex_vf_4.4-next
This is the 4.4.5 stable release
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb16
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/power-management.txt11
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
index 3a4abfc44f5e..136ba17d2da0 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
@@ -134,19 +134,21 @@ Description:
enabled for the device. Developer can write y/Y/1 or n/N/0 to
the file to enable/disable the feature.
-What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/usb3_hardware_lpm
-Date: June 2015
+What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/usb3_hardware_lpm_u1
+ /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/usb3_hardware_lpm_u2
+Date: November 2015
Contact: Kevin Strasser <kevin.strasser@linux.intel.com>
+ Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Description:
If CONFIG_PM is set and a USB 3.0 lpm-capable device is plugged
in to a xHCI host which supports link PM, it will check if U1
and U2 exit latencies have been set in the BOS descriptor; if
- the check is is passed and the host supports USB3 hardware LPM,
+ the check is passed and the host supports USB3 hardware LPM,
USB3 hardware LPM will be enabled for the device and the USB
- device directory will contain a file named
- power/usb3_hardware_lpm. The file holds a string value (enable
- or disable) indicating whether or not USB3 hardware LPM is
- enabled for the device.
+ device directory will contain two files named
+ power/usb3_hardware_lpm_u1 and power/usb3_hardware_lpm_u2. These
+ files hold a string value (enable or disable) indicating whether
+ or not USB3 hardware LPM U1 or U2 is enabled for the device.
What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../removable
Date: February 2012
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt
index c477af086e65..686a64bba775 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.txt
@@ -14,3 +14,10 @@ filesystem.
efivarfs is typically mounted like this,
mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
+
+Due to the presence of numerous firmware bugs where removing non-standard
+UEFI variables causes the system firmware to fail to POST, efivarfs
+files that are not well-known standardized variables are created
+as immutable files. This doesn't prevent removal - "chattr -i" will work -
+but it does prevent this kind of failure from being accomplished
+accidentally.
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
index 4a15c90bc11d..0a94ffe17ab6 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt
@@ -537,17 +537,18 @@ relevant attribute files are usb2_hardware_lpm and usb3_hardware_lpm.
can write y/Y/1 or n/N/0 to the file to enable/disable
USB2 hardware LPM manually. This is for test purpose mainly.
- power/usb3_hardware_lpm
+ power/usb3_hardware_lpm_u1
+ power/usb3_hardware_lpm_u2
When a USB 3.0 lpm-capable device is plugged in to a
xHCI host which supports link PM, it will check if U1
and U2 exit latencies have been set in the BOS
descriptor; if the check is is passed and the host
supports USB3 hardware LPM, USB3 hardware LPM will be
- enabled for the device and this file will be created.
- The file holds a string value (enable or disable)
- indicating whether or not USB3 hardware LPM is
- enabled for the device.
+ enabled for the device and these files will be created.
+ The files hold a string value (enable or disable)
+ indicating whether or not USB3 hardware LPM U1 or U2
+ is enabled for the device.
USB Port Power Control
----------------------