With 2.6.18-rc6-mm2 it is possible on my T42p to do suspend/resume cycle only once. The second time, suspend fails with usb_hcd_pci_suspend(): ehci_pci_suspend+0x0/0xd0 [ehci_hcd]() returns -22 pci_device_suspend(): usb_hcd_pci_suspend+0x0/0x280() returns -22 suspend_device(): pci_device_suspend+0x0/0x70() returns -22 or, when ehci is unloaded, uhci fails in a similar way: usb_hcd_pci_suspend(): uhci_suspend+0x0/0xf0 [uhci_hcd]() returns -16 pci_device_suspend(): usb_hcd_pci_suspend+0x0/0x1c0() returns -16 suspend_device(): pci_device_suspend+0x0/0x70() returns -16 (by the way this looks to me like a mess, that the user could be presented with either -EINVAL or -EBUSY, in case of the same error, depending on the device driver which reports it. I will probably submit a consolidating patch later this evening). After some time I figured out that usb_resume_both() is not resuming devices properly - it calls resume_device() only for those devices which are USB_STATE_SUSPENDED (in which case we want to propagate the resume recursively up the device tree), but other cases (most notably USB_STATE_CONFIGURED) stay unhadled. This patch fixes my issue, now the suspend/resume can be done arbitrary number of times without any error. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Submitted to akpm/linux-usb on 19.9.2006 --- linux-2.6.18-rc6-mm2.orig/drivers/usb/core/driver.c 2006-09-14 16:20:48.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc6-mm2/drivers/usb/core/driver.c 2006-09-19 03:03:12.000000000 +0200 @@ -1083,6 +1083,8 @@ int usb_resume_both(struct usb_device *u status = resume_device(udev); if (parent) mutex_unlock(&parent->pm_mutex); + } else { + status = resume_device(udev); } /* Now the parent won't suspend until we are finished */