Oliver Neukum [mailto:oneu...@suse.com]
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> If the device does not support remote wakeup and the driver enables it, 
> runtime
> power management will be switched off.
> That is the current state and it means that devices which don't support remote
> wakeup cannot do runtime power management at all. But the driver is correct.
> 
> The only time a device that doesn't support remote wakeup can do runtime power
> managent is when no packets can be received that is while the interface is 
> down. If
> you want to allow that you must not set needs_remote_wakeup in probe(), but 
> you
> must set it in open() because it is necessary for runtime power management as 
> I
> explained above.
> 
> Sorry for the length of this mail, but I wanted to make sure I am absolutely 
> clear
> this time.

Thanks for you explanation. I focus on the wrong point. You mean this would 
cause
the problem for runtime suspend. I would rethink my method and correct it.

Best Regards,
Hayes

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