What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/autosuspend Date: March 2007 KernelVersion: 2.6.21 Contact: Alan Stern Description: Each USB device directory will contain a file named power/autosuspend. This file holds the time (in seconds) the device must be idle before it will be autosuspended. 0 means the device will be autosuspended as soon as possible. Negative values will prevent the device from being autosuspended at all, and writing a negative value will resume the device if it is already suspended. The autosuspend delay for newly-created devices is set to the value of the usbcore.autosuspend module parameter. What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/level Date: March 2007 KernelVersion: 2.6.21 Contact: Alan Stern Description: Each USB device directory will contain a file named power/level. This file holds a power-level setting for the device, one of "on", "auto", or "suspend". "on" means that the device is not allowed to autosuspend, although normal suspends for system sleep will still be honored. "auto" means the device will autosuspend and autoresume in the usual manner, according to the capabilities of its driver. "suspend" means the device is forced into a suspended state and it will not autoresume in response to I/O requests. However remote-wakeup requests from the device may still be enabled (the remote-wakeup setting is controlled separately by the power/wakeup attribute). During normal use, devices should be left in the "auto" level. The other levels are meant for administrative uses. If you want to suspend a device immediately but leave it free to wake up in response to I/O requests, you should write "0" to power/autosuspend.