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Is there a way to power down a USB device using software?

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Mar 15, 202626785 views
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Is there a way that I can power off a (specific) USB device completely using software from a Linux machine? I want to use this to power off (so that the LED is off) a (single) USB stick. Do you know any method to achieve this? E.g. using /sys/bus/usb or the like?

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If your machine runs old kernel, you could issue to force suspension of device. However, since 2.6.32 this is no longer possible: We can categorize power management events in two broad classes: external and internal. External events are those trigge…

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