Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:54:16 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb module orginization Message-ID: <20030707225416.GM44762@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20030707224630.GM31285@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20030707071617.GD44762@funkthat.com> <20030707194747.GA21209@survey.codeburst.net> <20030707221544.GL31285@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030707223559.GL44762@funkthat.com> <20030707224630.GM31285@cicely12.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter wrote this message on Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 00:46 +0200:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:35:59PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > Bernd Walter wrote this message on Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 00:15 +0200:
> > > Also it would be a great idea to split the usb module into usb, ehci,
> > > ohci, uhci and maybe uhub.
> >
> > -current is broken wrt split usb modules. when you set usbd_enable="YES"
> > in rc.conf, it only loads the usb device. If you then load ugen or any
> > other device, any existing devices are not reprobed. You have to unplug
> > and replug the device back in. So if you broke uhub out, then you'd
> > be in even work trouble since you can't disconnect the internal hub to
> > magicly make it appear.
>
> uhub support is mandantory - just make it an dependency of usb.
> Naturally usb need to be a dependency to the controller modules.
but usb is a dependancy of uhub. so, which do you load first? :)
> For the reprobing thing - it's easy to write a userland tool which
> cycles the port to get a reprobe - I thought about writing one since a
> while.
why doesn't usbd do this? we shouldn't need another program to do
this.
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