Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 00:46:31 +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: <20030707224630.GM31285@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030707223559.GL44762@funkthat.com> References: <20030707071617.GD44762@funkthat.com> <20030707194747.GA21209@survey.codeburst.net> <20030707221544.GL31285@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030707223559.GL44762@funkthat.com>
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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. 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. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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