Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 01:09:04 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: ticso@cicely.de, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, joe@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb module orginization Message-ID: <20030707230903.GN31285@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030707225416.GM44762@funkthat.com> References: <20030707071617.GD44762@funkthat.com> <20030707194747.GA21209@survey.codeburst.net> <20030707221544.GL31285@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030707223559.GL44762@funkthat.com> <20030707224630.GM31285@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030707225416.GM44762@funkthat.com>
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:54:16PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > 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? :) Mmm - yes a bad idea - Ok don't split usb and uhub until there is a good solution on how this can be handled. > > 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. If a user wants to reprobe or reset a device he needs a command line tool not a daemon. usbd is a daemon and idealy it should be replaced by devd some day. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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