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1What: /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/level2Date: March 20073KernelVersion: 2.6.214Contact: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>5Description:6 Each USB device directory will contain a file named7 power/level. This file holds a power-level setting for8 the device, either "on" or "auto".9 10 "on" means that the device is not allowed to autosuspend,11 although normal suspends for system sleep will still12 be honored. "auto" means the device will autosuspend13 and autoresume in the usual manner, according to the14 capabilities of its driver.15 16 During normal use, devices should be left in the "auto"17 level. The "on" level is meant for administrative uses.18 If you want to suspend a device immediately but leave it19 free to wake up in response to I/O requests, you should20 write "0" to power/autosuspend.21 22 Device not capable of proper suspend and resume should be23 left in the "on" level. Although the USB spec requires24 devices to support suspend/resume, many of them do not.25 In fact so many don't that by default, the USB core26 initializes all non-hub devices in the "on" level. Some27 drivers may change this setting when they are bound.28 29 This file is deprecated and will be removed after 2010.30 Use the power/control file instead; it does exactly the31 same thing.32