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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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