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Subject: Re: Disappearing memory
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:02:53 -0700 (MST)
> "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>> In message: <17341.65102.980006.14057@canoe.dclg.ca>
>>             David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> writes:
>> : Maybe what we need is 'usbcontrol' ... allowing us to reset (or at
>> : least reset the OSs idea of) one usb device.
>>
>> I've wanted a generic way to send messages to busses about children
>> and to devices.  PC Card and CardBus could use that for power down as
>> well..
>
> If you aren't going to write it yourself, feel free to write up a
> (plain-text) entry for http://www.FreeBSD.org/projects/ideas/ and send
> it to us.

I wrote something simple a while back that does some of this:

 	ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/foot.tar.gz

It allows newbus methods to be invoked for a given device.