USB: deprecate the power/level sysfs attribute

This patch (as1367) deprecates USB's power/level sysfs attribute in
favor of the power/control attribute provided by the runtime PM core.
The two attributes do the same thing.

It would be nice to replace power/level with a symlink to
power/control, but at the moment sysfs doesn't offer any way to do so.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
index bcebb9eaedce..294aa864a60a 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
@@ -14,34 +14,6 @@ Description:
                 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 <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
-Description:
-                Each USB device directory will contain a file named
-                power/level.  This file holds a power-level setting for
-                the device, either "on" or "auto".
-
-                "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.
-
-                During normal use, devices should be left in the "auto"
-                level.  The "on" level is 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.
-
-                Device not capable of proper suspend and resume should be
-                left in the "on" level.  Although the USB spec requires
-                devices to support suspend/resume, many of them do not.
-                In fact so many don't that by default, the USB core
-                initializes all non-hub devices in the "on" level.  Some
-                drivers may change this setting when they are bound.
-
 What:           /sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/persist
 Date:           May 2007
 KernelVersion:  2.6.23