Re: [PATCH resend 5/6] toshiba_acpi: Add support to enable/disable USB 3

From: Darren Hart
Date: Mon Feb 09 2015 - 23:11:57 EST


On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 08:34:53PM -0700, Azael Avalos wrote:
> Toshiba laptops that come with USB 3 ports have a feature that lets
> them disable USB 3 functionality and act as a regular USB 2 port, and
> thus, saving power.
>
> This patch adds support to that feature, by creating a sysfs entry
> named "usb_three", acceptig only two parameters, 0 to disable the
> USB 3 (acting as a USB 2) and 1 to enable it.
>

Similar question, does the system BIOS allow you to configure this setting? If
so, what would be the value for enabling it in the OS directly?

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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